1 39 Belgrave Sq Dublin 2 April, 1916 My dearest love, You are awfully good to write
to me so constantly and especially so when
you have to do all your own messages.
Your letters make me very happy so that I
don't feel the day pass until I am hearing
from you again. All the same I'm not so
selfish as to wish you to write to me every
day so please don't be fretting yourself about
writing except when you find it convenient.
I was out walking for a good while to-day but
my company was not so pleasant as I
could have had if I had only deferred my
country visit until this Sunday. I was
thinking of you all the time and wondering 2
what you were doing but I suppose you were
busy with homework at the time and had
no time to spare for such a worthless chap as
me. The weather these days makes you long for
holidays and to be able to get away from
the treadmill of the office especially when you
know what pleasure and happiness await you
if you could only manage to get the liberty.
However it's not long now till Easter next
Thursday fortnight and it won't be long
passing and six weeks after that will be
the day of days. I'll start marking them off day
by day from this on like I used to do at
school and I'll keep my heart warm and
my hopes up in the meantime. I'm sure I'll
l have a lovely time at Easter and on the
whole I'm not sorry that you are not anxious
to go to the races. I'd be bound to go down
to them, nothing could keep me away and as I
couldn't for shame sake spend another weekend
in so soon I'd only see you for
a few minutes in a crowd and it would only
increase my heartache rather than relieve it. It
will be much better to have you up for a while
than that and I feel like hugging you now ( I
wish I could!!) for being such a dear good little
girl as to agree to come up. My mother will be
delighted to have you for as long as you'll stay, sure
it's hardly worth your while going back and your
own little man will worship you and the ground
you stand on all the time. By the way when I
come down at Easter I'd like to bring you something
just to show my love. Would you like anything
special? How about a scarf or gloves or something
of that sort. If you wish it, I can get Nora to
help me buy and so you could be sure of the
taste being all right, if I bought myself I'd probably
make an awful mess of it. Nobody made an April 3
fool of me. I wish I had been with you for
the pleasure of having it done to me but I know
the June fooling will be the best and sweetest
in the world. You're quite right in saying that
you made a January fool of me or perhaps
hardly a January one because it was a very long
time before January that you turned my silly
head. You have a lot to answer for in that
way so I hope you will do your full and
proper wifely duty when you pledge yourself. And
I know very well you will but I like to jibe
you about it in any case, and I like to talk
about it or think about it when I'm alone. No
news at all today except the lovely weather. The
boys must be killed these days with the rush
of the opening work so long deferred. Hope they're
sowing plenty of spuds and oats because we might
all have to live on them this year. Give my regards
to your mother, Nans and all and my heart's deepest
and warmest love for my darling From her loving James