Maycot
15.1.40

No. 12 (9.30 am)

Dearest,

I’ve been hoping to have a line for you as it is now thirteen days since I received your last.

This morning I see the sad news in the papers that all B.E.F. leave has been stopped temporarily owing to the moving of Nazi troops on Dutch frontier.

I’m terribly disappointed darling and I feel sure you must be also. I do hope I hear from you very soon now as I feel desperately lonely and far away from you sometimes; though you’ve always been in my thoughts.

I do hope you are well darling and I want you to arrange that, in the event of your being sick or unable to write me at any time, that one of your colleagues would let me know. Please of this for me darling as the suspense when I don’t hear from you is almost unbearable sometimes.

If the present war news means that you are going to be busy, I want you to know that I love you with all my heart and will be always…

…thinking of you.

Jill is so wanting you to come home again soon and her repeated enquiries make me feel rather sad sometimes.

Mother has been laid up with bronchitis since Christmas but I think she is on the mend now.

I’d not heard anything from Spencer Lewis (beyond two payments of £’) and last week the news came that he had been killed. Poor Helen and Christopher. I feel so very sorry.

Dearest, I’m going to close now as I want to catch the 10:00 post. I first dashed this off so that it would not seem too long between my letters; I’ve been watching each post for a letter from you but it hasn’t come.

With all my love—God bless you.

Yours.

Terry.