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18 March 1940

Postmarked COLNE LANCS 8PM 18 MCH 1940
addressed to Lieut. R. Helme, D.W.R., Church House, Norton, Malton. Yorks

Albert House, Colne.
18th March.

My dearest Ronnie,

It was lovely to hear your dear voice last night, and I do hope you didn’t think I was too cold. I felt that I couldn’t say all that I wanted to under the circumstances. You know I am a little bashful. Not of you though.

I went home after we had phoned you after having been at your house since about eight.

Beloved, Daddy has just asked me to go and get him some books. Fancy at this hour. It’s twenty to seven and the place shuts at seven. What a life. No peace to write a long and loving epistle to my precious fiancé. Well I continue when I return, but this doesn’t seem much chance of a long letter.

… I have returned, and have been away short time as Marj kindly took me up in the car.

Although I didn’t start my letter with it, I am most thankful that the Finnish war is over. I would have gone nearly crazy if you had had to have gone (-what grammar!) – and at such short notice. Really I do feel that Providence is on our side – yours and mine my prescious. It would have been just ghastly: you in Finland. Oh I am so thankful you haven’t to go there now. I wish I did know where you were going though. Why can’t this vile war end soon?! When it does and you come back to me, I shall be happier than I have ever been before. That is the time I look forward to – when you really come to stay.

Your Mother should me some more photos of you as a boy last night, and you were very thin and lovely at sixteen. My dear boy, you were really sylph like. You were a comely lad, and I think our sons will be just like that.

Only 1/3 of the Officers coming home for Easter. I hardly dare hope that you will be amongst them. I am aching to hear. I am very jittery about it because it will soon be time for me to start at Hatfields. Dopray hard. I am going to see dear Mr Ross tomorrow at quarter to eleven. So think of me clinging to the chair in silent agony. I feel sure I shall have a filling or two to do.

You are a bad boy not washing your hair for so long. You are becoming positively dirty these days. If you come home I am going to washi it for you again as I have a Silvikryn (?) Shampoo I bought for myself really, but as my hair is already clean and beautiful I shall keep it for you. There is a special rinse with it too. I wonder if that will bring back your dear departed wave!

Do you see that all doctors under twenty eight have to register; so I guess we wont have the Dim Bull for very long. Can’t say I am crying over that. He really is a curio. Fancy you telling me to say “B__low you”, you brown eyed b-b-beauty! Speak of the devil indeed. I think he has a touch of B.O. too.

It must be supper time darling, and time I pottered to the post… By the way, I started writing something magnificent yesterday. Today I’m scared to look at it in case it isn’t after all. All my love dear boy, K’s c’s and c’s, Kay x

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