14-11-43

Dear Mum – Well, the quiet period seems to be over for letters – fifteen in a batch this month: some from you, Joan, Mr & Mrs Steeves, Mrs Bassett, Peggy Murray, Lin and Mrs Knuckey – not too bad, eh? Please thank Lin and Mrs Knuckey very much on my behalf; I was very pleased to hear from them both. It seems that Lin has been having fun and games. I’d like to be able to write to the folks personally, but since that can’t be, you’ll have to be private secretary for a while. Some Danish books have arrived from Denmark; a Bible, which I had asked for, and good old H.C. Andersen in Danish, amongst others. I write in Danish to them, and they say they are looking forward to seeing me after the war; I’m looking forward to seeing them, too, and hope I’ll be able to arrange it. It is just beginning to dawn upon me that Christmas is almost here again; it doesn’t seem a year since the last one, but here it is again. Maybe it is the last one in this part of the world, anyway. Ask Hazel to remember me to George when she writes next – love to her and that ever-growing family of hers, and, of course, to yourself, Mum, from Arnold G.