1 39, Belgrave Square, Rathmines, Dublin. 16th Jan, 1916. My dear, dear girl, This will have to be a
short letter if I am to catch the
post so I hope you will forgive me.
I need hardly tell you how delighted
I was to have your dear letter
and to see by it that you have a
real affection for me. I know that
I don't deserve it and I keep
wondering all the time what I have 2 ever done to deserve such a blessing.
I suppose good intentions sometimes
earn a reward such as your love
is and I know anyway that my
present intentions are sincere and
good. I hope, however badly the
execution may turn out, with
you to help me perhaps it may not
be so bad as I sometimes fear. Well, my dearest, I was sorry
to see you won’t be able to
come up as soon as I had hoped
but I must only have patience till I
see you. I’m sorry to hear that Jennie is knocked up but of course it
is nothing serious. It’s a good thing your
mother has decided to go down and
see her for I’m sure she wouldn’t
be contented till she saw her
mother. They will have a lot to say
to each other so perhaps she may not
come back as soon as I hope. However
there’s no use in my being selfish anyhow;
I ought to be more than thankful with
things as they are and I am too. Tell Christy and Tommy Seery that
a friend of mine heard English cattle
buyers talking at Dublin market on
Thursday and saying that beef will be 3 1/6 a lb on the beast’s back before a month.
So they had better stiffen their prices for
any stall feds they have remaining.
From all I hear everything points to very
high prices for cattle in the near future.
So they’d better avail of the tip. My mother was delighted to have
such a very nice letter from Mrs Fay
this morning. She let me see it and I
must say I was honestly amused with
her good opinion of this miserable sinner.
I can hardly help laughing every time I hear
people gassing about my goodness Hope this catches the post so must
shut up with my heart’s warmest love to the
best little girl in the world. Please don’t laugh. It’s
true. Yours ever fondly, James