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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916

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sometimes for the want of a little leisure and a nice book.
<lb/>Some one sent out a dear little collection of poetry, all old
<lb/> favourites with some books for the Tommies &amp; I have kept it
<lb/>as they would never read them, and it was a perfect joy
<lb/>to see some of them again. I wish you would get abroad
<lb/>somewhere, it would be so much more interesting but if you
<lb/>came out here you would be here for all the hot weather.
<lb/>Have you signed in for another six months. My time
<lb/>will not be up till April. Poor Dessie's affair
<lb/>sounds to me rather a fiasco. It is a pity! I don't like the
<lb/>sound of him at all. I have nothing to tell you for I
<lb/>have been having a very quiet life lately. If I could only
<lb/>show you the people, it is a perpetual ammusement to watch
<lb/>them. You see a woman swinging along with an enormous bundle
<lb/>on her head and a child perched on her shoulder, sitting up as straight
<lb/>as a reed though it only looks about a year old, or a man in
<lb/>a lovely blue robe riding on a white donkey with big milk cans in
<lb/>panniers at each side, or a very old man bent double with a 
<lb/>big water skin on his back, there is a picture at every corner,
<lb/>but descriptions are dull I think, &amp; nothing in the way of photographs
<lb/>is much good for you live the colour.
Best love my dear
Write again when you can
<salute>Ever yours</salute>
<signed><hi rend="underline">Emma.</hi></signed>

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Letter from Emma Duffin to Celia Duffin, 15 January 1916

Duffin papers

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