Sunday, 20 December, 1942

Usual address

Sunday  19.12.42*

My Own Darling,

I should actually be in bed tonight with you in your blue nurse’s uniform ministering to me!  I had a TAB inoculation yesterday & the result tonight is a temperature & a splitting headache.

Still, I don’t think I should find your presence soothing – I always find it most exciting.  The result would be a still higher temp. I suppose.

Did you get my wire yesterday?  I felt so excited that I felt I must tell you straight away, my Dear, & that was the only way I could think of doing so.

Words cannot express with what impatience I look forward to 1 Jan 43.  A repetition of those last glorious five days was a thing I had dreamed of, but not dared to hope for!  I felt on top of the world immediately I heard & the Colonel said “Well, I told you I was going to give you another leave to get married, didn’t I?  Ah me!  Wishful thinking I suppose.  I can hear you saying “Patience my Darling; Patience.”

Of course, now I am starting worrying for fear the plans go wrong, & you get your days off changed, but Darling, I think I can leave that to you to deal with can’t I?  Have you any lectures to attend during the five days, or have you got a rest from them since your exam?

I had a Christmas card from your Mother & Father this morning, & I have just written a letter back to them thanking them.  I can’t get any decent cards in the so-called town & so I am having to write letters to everyone.  I have written six tonight & that hasn’t improved my hand, I might tell you.  I felt that I must write to you before I went to bed.

You never told me what you wanted for Christmas, did you.  Now we are going to be at home together, I will leave it & you can choose something at the New Year.  I am putting some money in this letter for you to buy something for Vera.  You are in a better position to do that than I am.  Will you oblige?

I’ve just been thinking of you, Darling & wondering if you are busy or perhaps writing to me.

I am going to get very annoyed this next week when your letters don’t arrive very promptly.  As you say life is very flat if one looks for a letter from you and one doesn’t arrive!

Well Darling, I’ll go to bed & think of the exquisite times that are to come after the next 13 days have rolled away.  How I wish they had passed!!

All my love until I can give it you personally my Dear.  Yours Stan  xxxxxx

* Sunday was the 20 December - Stan got the date wrong, probably due to being ill.

 

Comments

  1. Liz Whitehouse21 December 2024 at 17:55

    The TAB inoculation that Stan is suffering the after-effects of is for Typhoid and para-typhoid types A and B, a clear indication that the Army expects Stan to be going somewhere where he might be at risk of being infected with Typhoid.

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