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Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to Alice Katherine Wynne, 7 August 1916

Trinity College Dublin

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Geoffrey Wieslan was doing.
<lb/>The railway between Folkstone
<lb/>&amp; Dover like that on Bray Head
<lb/>has collapsed. So I got on a motor
<lb/>bus. unfortunatately when I got about
<lb/>half way I found an <gap/>
<lb/>guard and as I hadn't a pass
<lb/>I had sorrowfully to take the next
<lb/>bus back to Folkstones.
Folkstone seems a decent sort
<lb/>of place. <del>and</del> &#x2014; an enormous <del>about</del> amount
<lb/>of khaki about &#x2014; mostly <gap/>
<lb/>and every second <gap/> one passes
<lb/>seems to speak French. &#x2014; the front
<lb/>was quite an interesting study
<lb/>after the desolation of Lough Swilly.
Rather a queer coincidence
<lb/>my meeting Goldsworthy there. &#x2014;
<lb/><unclear>merely</unclear> to say I was walking <gab>
<lb/>past his <unclear>when</unclear> he pulled me up &#x2014;
<lb/>then followed the <gap/> moment
<lb/>till I had placed him! (of course
<lb/>the fact of his being a <gap/>
<lb/>rather helped me.) He is certainly
<lb/>a very good chap. &#x2014;
Yesterday afternoon Geoffrey
<lb/>came over and we had an
<lb/>afternoon. He <del>is</del> as sent in an
<lb/><unclear>application</unclear> for the Flying Corps
<lb/>and goes for an interview on
<lb/>Wednesday. He has also been

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Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to Alice Katherine Wynne, 7 August 1916

Trinity College Dublin

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