27th January, 1940
No. 17.
Maycot
27.1.40.
Dearest,
Yours Nos: 16+17 have not yet come to hand (Nos 18+19 acknowledged earlier this week) so I presume they are lost. I do hope you are receiving all my letters and that the scarf reached you safely.
Are you quite well again now darling? I feel so worried about you in this awful weather. You will take care of yourself won’t you? I am hoping to het another letter from you very soon now.
After five days without water it came through again on Wednesday and we all celebrated by luxuriating in lovely hot baths. Sorry to mention it darling but it was such a relied not to have to fetch and carry all the water I wanted. It has not been quite so cold the last two days and this morning it started to rain. However after about Hal an hour an icy wind began to blow and the rain turned to snow so that once more everything is covered with snow. Still it’s not nearly so cold.
Jim has his second seven days leave this week (it isn’t fair!) but I thought he looked very seedy. He too has had “flu” and his throat was so bad he could scarcely speak. He came up yesterday to go with Edie to her mother’s funeral. Incidentally, Wyn and I sen a small wreath of tulips and daffodils.
Jim had some time previously booked seats for “Under your…
Hat” and in the evening he went up to town to meet Gladys and take her to the show.
I think there is quite a possibility that “Gorse Cottage” will be let before long, so I shall look forward to a reduction in rent.
I think you might be interested to hear that Wyn’s brother Leslie became the proud father of a son a couple of weeks ago. So also did Pier and Polly’s son Philip (by his second wife of course.)
Jill has been very sweet first lately and constantly talks of you and asked when you are coming home.
Wyn often comes in much earlier these evenings so I am not quire so lonely for such long spells. We get on famously and she was a great comfort to me when I was worried during the longs spell of 21 days when I didn’t hear from you.
Kathleen and Arthur Biggs always ask after you and they wish I could spend some of my evenings with them but of course I can’t leave Jill. Still, it’s very sweet of them.
Ethel Bully’s brother who was due home on leave from France a fortnight ago arrives home on Wednesday this week and Ethel was most excited about it.
I don’t think there’s anymore news just now darling. Remember I love you very dearly and am longing for you to be with me once more.
With all my love and a kiss from Jill.
Yours,
Terry.
Saturday 27th January, 1940
Jan 25th–The French government passes a law which fines citizens 5,000 francs for expressing “personal opinions” which express “false assertions” if they support “enemy propaganda and which, expressed publicly, indicate the marked intention of their authors to injure national defense by attacking the morale of the army and population.”
Jan 26th–The Nazi government in Germany institutes the death penalty for listening to foreign radio.
Charles de Gaulle sends a memo up the chain of command warning that, “We began the war with five million soldiers yet our aerial forces are only now being equipped and our armoured vehicles are too weak and too few in number.”
Jan 27th–The German government requires 1 million occupied Polish citizens to be assigned to rural and industrial work for the Reich.