1 D2109/9/4/B. 7 West Cliff, Sunday Nov 1915 Dearest Mamma, I begin a letter even though
there really seems little to tall this week.
Miss Constance Charles is here now which is
rather a relief, she is a pleasant unexciting woman
& it breaks our tete a tete. Mr. & Mrs. Hollins &
Eunice are arriving on Wed. Liam Ho for a few
days & I believe Eunice is to remain with us
for a bit. Yesterday we went to a very fine concert
Ysaye, Pachmann, & Stralia all together. It was
rather wasted on me I am afraid, but nothing will
persuade Miss Roberts that I am very unmusical.
Certainly, even I could recognise it was beautiful
music. We were at another concert this week where
I was very much bored! Yesterday morning was a perfect, writers' morning
with a hard first & bright sun, & Mrs Daniel rang me
up early & took me to Polegale by train & from there
a really lovely walk through little villages in the
Downs & home to Eastbourne over the Downs. It was
nice to see some more of the country, its really
is lonely up there in Umber to walk by oneself.
Poor Mrs. D. had just heard of the death of a very 2 D2109/9/4/B old & dear friend of hers, Major Riddel, he was killed
in the Persian Gulf. She seemed to feel it more
deeply that I thought her capable of feeling anything.
She & Winnie are not quite on bad terms but they
are quite apart, & unintimate. Winnie is making
bad friends & getting into bad ways & I tell Mrs.
D. she ought to take her away, but she says Winnie
has always bad taste in friends and would pick
up more wherever she took her! I made friends with Mrs Loughlin who was staying
here, such a nice woman. I am sorry she is gone.
Henry Hollins & I are now great friends & I enjoy
having him on Sundays, he has just gone off to
Church with Miss Charley & I am having a Sunday
at home. I see something of Violet Hollins &
Anabel Robertson, & like them both very much & it
is so nice to have a young person to talk to in
skin. Anabel had a nice brother at home for a
bit, he was blown right into the air a year ago (he is
a gunner) & his back a mass of shrapnel which has
been coming out every since. Ralph Hurley, Violets' brother
who was in hospital at Presen, is home again now,
he has arthritis & will probably not be sent abroad
again at present, her fiance is at Salonika. Dorothy says she may arrive on Wed: but is
uncertain & will wire from London. Some ch 3 D2109/9/4/B. here for a night or two. She talks of Chicester but I
will advise her not to go there at present. Hilda is
at work again & I see no object in it. I have settled to come over about Xmas time but
dont know yet when or for how long, but look
forward to it very much. It has been bitterly cold here, but dry & sunny. I am afraid
D. must be perished at Treport. They are getting plenty of recruits here now I beliefve, I
am starting classes for training women to take their
places in shops etc. I am sorry that old Mrs. Wals is gone, she was
always most kind to me. Annie & Harold will
miss her sadly. I am looking forward to seeing Dowling soon & hearing
a little more about Leslie & future prospects. Much love toall Your loving Olive. The potatoe bread has come yet, it does not matter
but I supplose its' not lost - en route