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Letter from Emma Duffin to her aunts, 9 January 1916,
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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 —/16.</date> <salute>My dearest Aunties</salute> <p>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 & repeat any news there was.</p> <p>It has been bitterly cold here with rain & 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 & <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.</p> <p>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 & now I feel quite flourishing over here. We are very <lb/><gap/>at the hospital here at present and I have not got nearly</p>
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