Letter to Maggie Baxter from John Law

Letter to Maggie Baxter from John Law

A letter from John to his sister. He mentions writing to a former girl friend and her response. He sympathises that her husband is off to war.

Three handwritten sheets and an envelope

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Maggie Baxter
Private Like!

Passed By Cwenser. [sic]

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S W A L K
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Same Place
Till Friday
P’raps!

Dear little Sis,

Heres a few lines for your private arker like to cheer you up a littel [sic] bit.

Thought you might like to know I wrote to Vera and got a nice letter back which shook me! Seems she still wants to be friends but I don’t think we’ll ever get serious about each other again.

You said you thought I ought to write and sort of make amends so I did but I’m telling you private like ‘cos praps Mum & Dad won’t like the idea – I don’t know. I still don’t know how

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V. feels towards me as she only mentioned being friends but otherwise she wrote quite a newsy sort of letter about Club etc.. Well that’s that. I still don’t know if I’d like to go out with her again even if ‘er be a’willin’ which I doubt so its a bit of a G G G Gocker (ah!) isn’t it!

Well thats not really what I wanted to write about anyway.

I want you to know how sorry I am that Les will have to go away – still it won’t be for long we all hope and he won’t be very far away in these modern days of travel. Please give him my love and wish

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him the best of luck and make him give you a big kiss from me speshul [sic]!

Don’t forget Maggie darlink – a love like yours can conquer any time and distance. God Bless you both.

If you feel lonely like any time then write to your littel [sic] bruvver an I’ll try to cheer you up with a speshul [sic] private letter, and [underlined] don’t [/underlined] muck up the backs of Mum’s in writing to me please. Write Private like too!

Well T.T.F.N. God Bless you and Les. And May He keep you safe

Always for me,

Johnny

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