Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine

Writes about weather and hopes he will be able to fly so he can come home for a time. Mentions trying to obtain cycle accessories which she will send. Continues with domestic issues and obtaining electrical equipment. Writes that she would not be bored if she went to join him. Mentions meeting the vicar and daughter's health.

1941-12-06

Four page handwritten letter

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Lido
6.12.41
Johnnie my darling,
I’m trying not to hope that I shall see you before you see this. The weather is pretty rotten here today, grey & gusty, but perhaps that’s how you like it for flying & will be able to do a flight today & so come home tomorrow. How I long for you - it’s worse than usual this time.
I’m going to try to get the cycle accessories you ask for this p.m, but will not post them in the hope that you may be home to take them back yourself.
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Norman rang today to say that the vacuum cleaner has been sold in the meantime, but that the firm will keep the next one for us. There’s no immediate hurry anyway. And Mrs Lloyd, friend of Mrs Hillman, is moving house to a place where there is DC & is getting rid of some of her electrical equipment. She has an electric clock for the kitchen, one of those plain round cream-coloured discs, I gather, so I am enquiring what she wants for it, because it would be very nice for our future kitchen. Mrs Hillman murmured something about an electric fire too, tho’ she thought they might be able to use that on DC as well as AC.
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But if it is available, do you think we should invest in it, if its reasonable in price? Unfortunately her vacuum is a Hoover which can be used on DC or AC.
You needn’t bother about my being bored to distraction if I lived in a farmhouse near you – there’s nothing I should like better, for a change, and the sewing & knitting I have to do for Frances is assuming mountainous proportions, with very little prospect of ever being reduced. The one snag about going away seems to be the confirmation classes. I met the Vicar yesterday, so I said to
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vicar “Vicar” and vicar said “Yes”, & the upshot of it was, how & when [deleted] I a [/deleted] am I going to work in these classes? Its all very hard. Barbara says she will come too, so Frances can consider she has saved three souls with one baptism! Maybe I shall have to put it off till the confirmation in the summer after all. He asked how you were getting on with your chaplain, but I couldn’t say much about it.
I am keeping Frances in bed today as her cough & cold are not better & it’s a horrid windy day.
I’m simply longing to see you and kiss you again darling, I [underlined] do [/underlined] hope you manage to get home tomorrow
All my love
Ursula.