Sunday, 4 June, 1944

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Sergt. S. Bristow
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces                                                                           157.

4 Jun 44

My Very Own Darling

To-day’s Sunday and my half day off & I suppose I should really be out getting some fresh air.  I feel very lazy & am therefore lolling on my bed, for outside the sun is very hot.

I’ve just been re-reading for the third or fourth time your letter of 26 May which arrived this morning to brighten up my day (almost rhymes that last bit!  Shows how I feel this afternoon!!)

It encloses a telling off for my having said that you made me walk home in the snow from Lundwood.  Sorry Darling!  In the case, as always, the woman is right.  When I come to think of it, it was not snowing – but it was cold enough & perhaps the frost was so thick in one or two places that it looked like snow!! Anyway I was glad to see 56 Brierley Road come into view that morning.

Your remarks about cowboy films show that there is yet another thing on which we are both agreed.  It is nice to know you don’t like them for it will save a lot of arguments when we are married & are deciding where to go for an evening’s entertainment!!!

Those are the times I am looking forward to so much Darling, when set up in our own house we can look forward to those sorts of evening out, enjoying them all the more because we know they will not have to end with a last embrace and goodnight kiss whenever the clock says “It is time to go”.  There must be a great kick, after one has been out, in returning home & knowing that it is yours & yours alone, the place wherein is all your happiness.

How I wish events would begin to move more rapidly than they are doing at the moment.  There's no wonder one gets impatient, is there, when one is continually dreaming of the thrills and happiness that the future holds for the pair of us.

Your photograph is smiling at me from my bedroom table Darling as much as to say “Be patient Darling”.  I am a very lucky bloke to have you back in England waiting for me Darling.  The 4½ years that I have spent in the Army has taught me a great deal and one of the most important things is just how important the love of a decent girl is.

I’ve seen lots of blokes who could have made a real success of their lives if they had have had someone like you to work for, but as it is, perhaps because they were unlucky, they have been let down in various ways by their wives or girls & have just lost interest in life.

Sorry, Darling, but I seem to have wandered on to a very serious vein, don’t I, & not by any means the right way to finish a letter.

I’ll finish in the way you like me to finish – by telling you that I am loving you more as each week passes.  Always yours, Stan  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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