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Letter from Olive Duffin to her mother, Maria Duffin, January 1916

PRONI

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<salute>Dearest Mamma,</salute>
you willbe surprised to see me using a typewriter
<lb/>Miss Hollins had hired one by the month -a thing I did not know
<lb/>one could do, and has left me a legacy of it, I strongly suspect 
<lb/>her of having got it for my benefit- any how I am very glad to have 
<lb/>it and mean to practise strenously. It is a Remington and not a 
<lb/>bad one at all t hough rather old-fashioned.
Miss Roberts wants you to keep the socks for the use of the 
<lb/>Ulster Division.
I had a letter from Emma which she says not to pass on as she 
<lb/>is writing to you herself, she evidently did not get some of our 
<lb/>letters, and had fears about your present having been lost.
She says, "I shall never regret having come out here, part 
<lb/>of it is unpleasant, but all of it is Life and the more I see and 
<lb/>the older I grow, the more I think Life with a big L is something and 
<lb/>ought not to be muddled away in corners, and yet no doubt some of 
<lb/>us must live in corners!" I am afraid <hi rend="underline">I</hi> am in a corner but it is 
<lb/>not too cramped and quite comfortable!
My cold is much better and I was out to-day, I was rather miserable 
<lb/>when I arrived.
Mrs Hollins latest idea is to send Emmie here to Miss Randall's 
<lb/>school, she will live here of courseand Miss Roberts is greatly 
<lb/>pleased at the prospect, another cousin, a Miss Dalbiac is to come 
<lb/>also, but she will board out. It seems a very sudden idea and as<pb/>

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Letter from Olive Duffin to her mother, Maria Duffin, January 1916

PRONI

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