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Comprises a letter on “British Vice-Consulate, Candia” headed paper (started in Iráklion, then finished in Athens): telling Hilda that they had bought a puppy called Kaltsoni from “the old Krone”; that the Squire [R W Hutchinson] and “the old lady” [his mother] had been away for 3 weeks but were back that night; hoping that letters were getting through, that she got a telegram on their wedding anniversary and that everything was peaceful in Wales; telling Hilda that he had been to Vianos and Amira on their wedding anniversary, and that there was a heat wave; complaining that it was hard not having news of the war and that he was jealous of people in action in England and Africa; and describing an Italian skipper in Crete getting annoyed with people asking why he doesn’t leave. In the second part of the letter (from Athens) John says he had seen Will Miller and Petrocochino, gives Hilda news that Frank Stubbings was unwell and Nicholas [Hammond?] was in Palestine, and asks her to tell David he hopes he does well next term. |
