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Letter from Emma Duffin to her aunts, 9 January 1916,

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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<address>15<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Gen. Hosp. Alexandria</address>
<date>Jan 9 &#x2014;/16.</date>
<salute>My dearest Aunties</salute>
I have time to <gap/> in this whilst waiting for the
<lb/>ambulance to take us on duty. Firstly thank you all very
<lb/>much for the xmas present which Mamma says she is sending
<lb/>from you. Our last mail was less and we are anxiously
<lb/>awaiting the next, it seems such an age since we got letters,
<lb/>and you never quite get the news you have lost either.
<lb/>One of your mails home was lost too, but as I don't know
<lb/>which it is useless to try &amp; repeat any news there was.
It has been bitterly cold here with rain &amp; storms, and
<lb/>when it does rain here it does it thoroughly. The amusing
<lb/>part is how injured we all feel about it, we grumble &amp;
<lb/>from as if we came from a county where there was no rain.
<lb/>I have been in the sick room for 5 days but do not want any
<lb/>sympathy wasted on me as after the first day I did not
<lb/>really feel at all ill and rather enjoyed the rest.
Jan 14. This letter is going to be a bit scrappy I am afraid.
<lb/>The weather is still horrid and I have had an awful<gap/>
<lb/>fall like a pumkin, I suppose I caught cold in it as I had
<lb/>not had <gap/>, it made me fell rather bad, <del>but</del>and I thought
<lb/>I would have to go off duty again, however it finished up by hurting
<lb/>inside &amp; now I feel quite flourishing over here. We are very
<lb/><gap/>at the hospital here at present and I have not got nearly

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Letter from Emma Duffin to her aunts, 9 January 1916,

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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