Stan and Grace

  2364226   Sergt Bristow S, UHQ, 15 L of C Signals, CMF 77.                                                                                      4 NOV 43 MY VERY OWN DARLING, I USED MY LAST AIR LETTER CARD LAST NIGHT IN WRITING TO YOUR MOTHER TO SAY HOW SORRY I WAS TO HEAR OF THE DEATH OF YOUR GRANDFATHER, SO THIS AIRGRAPH WILL HAVE TO SATISFY YOU FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, UNTIL THE NEXT ISSUE OF A.N.L.C.’S COMES AROUND! HOW JEALOUS YOU MAKE ME FEEL WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ERIC COMING HOME! !   I WISH I WAS IN A SIMILAR POSITION ALTHOUGH I SUPPOSE I SHOULDN’T...

G.H.N. 4-11-43          My Own Darling, I started writing you an ordinary letter last night but I thought that in the meantime I would write you this as these air-letters do travel quicker. When I started writing you last night I felt on top of the world but as I write this I feel down in the depths.   Yes, there is a good reason for my feeling this way.   I was expecting Eric and Bessie down to see me to-day.   It is my day-off and after waiting at the station for two trains to come in I came back to the hospital to find a telegram waiting for me from Eric, saying that Bessie is ill, so they cannot come. You can imagine my disappointment.   Somehow, I knew they would not come but I think that it is rather a coincidence that Bessie had to be ill the very morning they were coming to see me. Yes, maybe I do sound nasty saying things like that but a similar thing happened once before, before they were married.   However, I suppo...