HG12/18/20

Letter from Gertrude Longuet Higgins, 75 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, London W14, to son Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins.

21 Nov 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Wonders where Hugh is based; pleased he is getting better billets; hopes he will be careful about drinking the water. Read an address by Rawlinson [Hugh's General] in The Times; wonders if Hugh comes across him. Maude is recovering from a heavy cold and father bothered by rheumatism. John is very tired - has been working 11 hours a day owing to depletion of his office staff by the 'flu. No. 39 has been sold, so John and family must look for a another and bigger house. Philip Hamill's marriage to [Louisa] Maude Zehstwayr; he proposed on Wednesday and was married 6 days later. Kathleen Swann has a little son, 3 weeks old, and Mary has just become engaged to a man over 60! Kathleen expects a fortnight or 3 weeks holiday next month.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude,
Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude Maude,
Longuet-Higgins, Henry Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, John Esmond Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, Kathleen,
Rawlinson,
Hamill, Philip,
Zehstwayr, Louisa Maude,
Swann, Kathleen

family correspondence, World War One, rheumatism, influenza, specific marriages