Letter to Edith Collier 23/10/48 sent from Cheshire.
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Miss E. Collier
Ringley,
St John’s Hill
Wanganui
New Zealand
Senders Name:
Collier
144 Moss Lane
Timperley
Cheshire
My dear Edith,
It was good to have your letter, but I am grieved to hear of Harry’s illness. Dorothy told me [illeg.] in her letter. Please let me know how he is getting along – I have a very warm [illeg.] in my heart for him. I did write him a long letter in August and am afraid he will [illeg.] I know he will if I write again, perhaps I had better wait a week or two and think up something to write about.
I am so glad to know you would like some papers – they will be very old by the time they reach you but I will get [illeg.] every week. You will be shocked to see how thin they are, we are terrible short of paper. I am sending two [illeg.] because it is the best newspaper in the country and has [illeg.] reviews of picture shows and [illeg.] that may interest you. I’m also sending the Sunday Times because that also has good critics writing for it. I wonder if you got the Royal wedding [illeg.] of the Illustrated London [illeg.] I enclosed for you. They were for export only so I didn’t see it – they were sent by book sellers. I hope it arrived.
Things are in a ghastly mess. The [illeg.] [illeg.] is deplorable. Now the soldiers are in France – it will be dreadful if Civil war breaks out there. It is neally certain Russia would go to the [illeg.] of the command then the far would be in the [illeg.] With so many possible causes of war we’ve to be thankful for every day we escape through without it breaking [illeg.] papers so that your [National?] Health scheme is [illeg.] running smoothly. We’ve only had ours since July and the doctors are nearly dead already. People go in crowds to the surgeries for notes to get [illeg.] free. A [illeg.] told me yesterday that he’d had a call in the morning from a patient 3 miles away; he got out [illeg.] car and went thinking she was seriously ill – and she had got a stye in her eye! He was wild with fury. People wont buy them [illeg.] or bottle of [illeg.]! I gather your scheme is up against the same sort of difficulties. I am afraid people don’t value things that are given [illeg.] free. Why on earth they don’t give the free service to people that need it and let those pay who can afford to, is a mystery to me. Maybe we shall get back to that scheme soon.
Miss E. Collier
Ringley,
St John’s Hill
Wanganui
New Zealand
Senders Name:
Collier
144 Moss Lane
Timperley
Cheshire
My dear Edith,
It was good to have your letter, but I am grieved to hear of Harry’s illness. Dorothy told me [illeg.] in her letter. Please let me know how he is getting along – I have a very warm [illeg.] in my heart for him. I did write him a long letter in August and am afraid he will [illeg.] I know he will if I write again, perhaps I had better wait a week or two and think up something to write about.
I am so glad to know you would like some papers – they will be very old by the time they reach you but I will get [illeg.] every week. You will be shocked to see how thin they are, we are terrible short of paper. I am sending two [illeg.] because it is the best newspaper in the country and has [illeg.] reviews of picture shows and [illeg.] that may interest you. I’m also sending the Sunday Times because that also has good critics writing for it. I wonder if you got the Royal wedding [illeg.] of the Illustrated London [illeg.] I enclosed for you. They were for export only so I didn’t see it – they were sent by book sellers. I hope it arrived.
Things are in a ghastly mess. The [illeg.] [illeg.] is deplorable. Now the soldiers are in France – it will be dreadful if Civil war breaks out there. It is neally certain Russia would go to the [illeg.] of the command then the far would be in the [illeg.] With so many possible causes of war we’ve to be thankful for every day we escape through without it breaking [illeg.] papers so that your [National?] Health scheme is [illeg.] running smoothly. We’ve only had ours since July and the doctors are nearly dead already. People go in crowds to the surgeries for notes to get [illeg.] free. A [illeg.] told me yesterday that he’d had a call in the morning from a patient 3 miles away; he got out [illeg.] car and went thinking she was seriously ill – and she had got a stye in her eye! He was wild with fury. People wont buy them [illeg.] or bottle of [illeg.]! I gather your scheme is up against the same sort of difficulties. I am afraid people don’t value things that are given [illeg.] free. Why on earth they don’t give the free service to people that need it and let those pay who can afford to, is a mystery to me. Maybe we shall get back to that scheme soon.
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246 x 208mm
Media
biro on paper
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Letter to Edith Collier 23/10/48 sent from Cheshire. Written double sided on an airmail letter. Probably from her cousin Fannie Collier.
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Collection of The Edith Collier Trust, in the permanent care of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.
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Acquisition Date
Circa 1985
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A2015/1/233