1 Best love
If I can't come to you
you will have to come
and visit me - Ever yours Celia 3rd London General
Hospital Dec: 8th 15. Dearest Mamma Many thanks for the glass and
the lovely warm gloves, but I wish you
had kept them for yourself. I am
delighted with them and glad to
have a looking glass again as the
charwoman in my house broke the
remains of mine. I have been put on night-duty
again, much to my sorrow. I don't
know why, as lots of the nurses haven't
been on night at all yet, and I
have had all the bother of moving
my billetts and changing into another
house at 25 Nicosia Rd, where the
nurses are doing night work too. 2 Also I have lost the little room I had to
myself and now have to share with
another girl. Fortunately she is a lady
and seems nice, her brother, Capt: Josse is
the registrar here and she is a cousin of
Edmund Josse's. I was sorry to leave my old ward, especially
as I am in an enteric ward now and
the surgical work is much nicer. I
suppose I shall be on night duty
for some little time and will spend
Xmas day in bed! My day sister
was very nice when I was learning her
ward and I think was really sorry
I was going. I missed my day off in consequence,
which had just been arranged so nicely
so that I could spend the day with Dorothy.
However I saw her for about an hour before
I went to bed. She was looking very well,
but her arrangement with Leslie
Horsburgh sounds very odd, and I
don't think she can be desperately in love
with him. Mrs Lecky wrote me such a kind letter
asking me to go to the theatre with her
and Peggy, but I can go no place now. What is the matter with Edmund ? He
seems to have been seedy for such a
long while now. I don't know any of the nurses in this
house which is a little further away
from the hospital, and I think a
nicer house, but I don't think very
interesting people live in it. My new ward is upstairs in the main
building instead of in the huts so is
much warmer at night which is an
advantage. It is sad about Mr. Finlay's death, Mrs
Finlay will feel very lonely now with
only Babs at home. It isn't at all possible to take a month's 3 holiday as you suggest, if you go you are
not taken on again, I suppose if it were allowed
everybody would be rushing off. We are
now told that after this we are to
get at least £2 monthly allowance as
well as our pay, that is the extra money
over from our board, keep, etc; This
will be very nice indeed as I did not
expect it; and the £20 would have
been rather hard to do with, paying
for one's washing and a good many odd
meals out of it. I wonder what Emma
is drawing at Alexandria in the way of
pay. My new coat and hat are
very comfortable and it's a relief not to have
to wear that awkward cloak any more. Our men have all got egg cups, but I
don't think the war office allows for them,
I think friends and the ward sister provide
them. It's time to give one of the
patients his 3 hourly feed.