HG12/18/21

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

24 Nov 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Questions about where Hugh is, and where he is going. Asks if Hugh has come across a Mr Warren, who has been transferred due to his knowledge of German. Father has not been well; partly the cold and worrying work at the office. He is also now 'realising the burdens and charges on the Turvey farms he contemplates selling and the most low and inadequate rents he is recieving from them' he is more depressed. The writer is pleased he has decided to sell the 4 farms. 'It is a big business, and now the mortgagees solicitors are making themselves disagreeable ...' Temporary helper is now Mrs Bishop, daughter of Hugh's tenant. She has chucked the sorters and deliverers job at the Post Office. Her husband is a gunner in France. Saw the new Mrs Hamill. Philip has not got to go back to Bombay as expected. Mary Hamill is engaged to a widower of 65! She is 36. Mrs Hamill does not approve, especially as there is another much younger admirer shortly coming home to England.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude,
Bishop,
Warren,
Hamill, Mary,
Hamill, Philip

family correspondence, World War One, estate management, domestic servant, specific marriages