Postmarked COLNE LANCS 8PM 9 APR 1940
addressed Lieut. R. Helme, D.W.R., Church House, Norton, Malton. Yorks
ALBERT HOUSE. COLNE. LANCS. TEL.NO.282
9th April.
My dearest Ronnie,
I have just been listening to the one o’clock news, and it has give me the pip. Germany invading Denmark and Norway! What will happen next?! What a shock it gave me. I had never imagined such a thing. I hope to goodness the government had.
Oh dear, I am so worried about you. Where will you have to go. That’s what I am asking myself all the time. It is terrible, terrible. I do want to see you so badly. If there is any chance of you getting off I’ll get off somehow I love you so very very much that it is agony to be away from you and not to know for how long. I just don’t seem to know a thing only that I love you terribly.
The whole world’s messed up and I want to run to you and bury my head in your coat, and the one thing I want to do I can’t.
I have your photo here in front of me, and you look so real I can almost smell that nice clean Ronnie smell. It is a lovely photo. You look so cute, and if I look at it a long time as I often do, you come alive. If I smile at you you smile back at me, if I have tears in my eyes you have tears in your eyes too. I’ve bought a beautiful frame for the big photo and a little case for the postcard size – so as I can carry it about with me.
I’m sending you the wee one of myself I said I’d get from Marie Pod. She couldn’t find it when I asked for it before, but I got it today. The case is not at all nice, but the real leather ones were too dear for a girl who is saving up to buy some furniture!
Darling I’ll have to go now but will rush hoe to finish this. How I love you.
I’ve no time for more darling. I’ve just come home and am going to have Supper. Dicky is posting this. I want to phone you tonight if I can find your number.
I love you prescious.
Kisses, cuddles and caresses,
Kathleen