Friday, 28 April, 1944

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Sergt. S. Bristow
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces

28 Apr 44                                                                                      141.

My Own Precious Darling,

Your letter announcing the arrival of the cafe “snaps” turned up yesterday to shed a little brightness onto an otherwise boring day.  So glad you liked them.  I thought they were quite good.  It’s a bit of a change to get a good photograph of myself.

So you claim to be one of these people who’s moods are governed by the weather.  Well, the blokes in my office tell me that I am getting very short tempered these days, so it looks as though each time it rains there’ll be a first class scrap in the Bristow (jnr) household.  Do you think there will be?

Personally I don’t think there’ll be much fear of that, Darling, for I am sure that we are both sensible people who both realise that marriage can only be successful if there’s give & take on both sides.  However, I have made a mental note to treat you very carefully, Darling, each time it rains, snows, blows or is foggy – but then I shall ever treat you any other way but carefully, for you are too precious to me Angel to be treated any other way.  I think our married life will be very happy, Darling, don’t you?

Talking about marriage by the way, the news of Jean Goodersons’s wedding was a surprise to me.  You had not mentioned it before.  Is she going to continue nursing until the war is over or not?

I wish I had been an engineer or something instead of a journalist & then perhaps we should have been married by now!!  I wish we were in their shoes, don’t you? – at least just for the wedding part.

I don’t know if I mentioned it in my last letter, but I had a letter from Vera wishing me a happy birthday a couple of days ago.  It was written on 10 Mar., but had gone astray because she had only put “15 L of C” instead of “15 L of C Signals”.  I shall be writing to her in the next day or two.  I started a sea letter to you last night but didn’t quite manage to finish it so I must see if I can complete it as soon as I have finished this page.

I have just finished reading a really grand book which I can thoroughly recommend to you if you can get hold of it – “Three Englishmen” by Gilbert Frankau.  It is the sort of book that grips you & on several occasions this last week it has been after midnight when I have put it away & gone to sleep.  Try and get hold of it.

We have had two films this week – both rather old ones.  “A Woman’s Face” with Joan Crawford & Melvyn Douglas was quite good, but the other one “The Glass Key” wasn’t too hot.  It was rather an involved gangster film made all the more complicated by the fact that the Italian operator got the reels mixed up half way through!  Still it passed an evening on.

Well, Angel, the end of the page is here again.  Damned nuisance!  These pages should be made of elastic.  Anyway instead of grumbling I’ll give you a big kiss & say “Bye Bye” until next time.  Your own, Stan  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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