Letter from Muriel Green to her husband Stanley, Sept. 6, 1916, page 5

• March 2, 2017 04:22:21 Cheryl Ellsworth

  5.

  says she used to be very plump. Muriel

  Hodgson's baby has got whooping cough and

  the poor little mite goes black in the face

  Mrs Hodgson says it's ugly; it takes after

  Pulleyn's. That reminds me, when Kitty

  says baby is tiresome and far too energetic

  Dick tells her she must take after her

  because he (Dick) was a very quiet baby.

  Your mother says Mrs Foxton must tell

  lies and she doesn't believe Dick was

  ever quiet. My word! your mother has got

  her knife into the Foxton family and also

  into Dick. She says he is not a gentleman

  and she is going to tell him off for not

  writing to Kitty. She says it is only right

  women should have these attentions. Well

  I should be surprised if my husband did

  not want to write to me. You know I think

  Kitty can't help comparing her husband

  and elder brother when I get letters, because

  she says "Yes Stanley poor lad always

  writes and he is ill in bed." But Bless

  you - if every woman had as good a

  husband as I have there would be no

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