18 Bennetthorpe
Doncaster
25/11/17

My Dearest

I was so pleased to receive your dear letter this morning, how lovely if you wre sent to Arnolds Hospital or Loversall, they are Auxiliary Hospitals, they are for convalescents & are run by donations & subscriptions with only a small grant from the government, the kind my Aunt goes to.

Perhaps you have heard from your Mother by now, I was hoping that I should receive a letter.

I have found out, Dearest, that you could get a license in any town you happen to be living in, Reading or the town you go to next. Perhaps you could write up something to get the information required about the permission. Oh but wouldn't it be lovely if they sent you to one of the convalescent places round about here. We could then perhaps be married some day before you were discharged & get the full benefit of your ten days leave. Yes, Dearest I am anxious, & it is a good thing that the work at the office is not so terribly exciting just now, for it is impossible to keep my mind on it. Above half the girls have received a weeks notice, I suppose an office, no doubt just a small one, will be kept on for some time but who will be kept on for it is still a mystery as far as the girls are concerned but the office & it's ways are not interesting me just now, though try to make a pretence to be while I am there.

Legay's letters are still addressed to Young St. He has not mentioned receiving a letter from you but I should think he will have by now. Perhaps one has gone to France for you. I suppose you will not have heard from your friend at the Battery yet.

It is lovely at Ilkley when there is a moon to go over the Moors. Would it not be strange if you went to an Auxiliary hospital there? I suppose they would not send you to Donc. if they thought you particularly wanted to be there.

Rosa is here for the week-end. She wanted to come again, so we asked her to come now, as we did not expect you would be here so soon (though you could not be home soon enough). I wish Reading was not so far away. I should have been over before now. I have gazed at it on our office map & was glad you were not right in London, though there does not appear to have been any raids just lately & hope there will not be.

Our star reading man still holds to his idea of peace being signed in April. If we go on as we are doing in France, there is every chance that it may. I would not grumble if it was signed on Christmas day. Just fancy it is the 1st Dec. next Saturday. I do hope you will be inn England & at home at Xmas.

Dearest, do you think you will be able to get the permission, even if you are sent to an hospital without Canadian Officials about?

Well Good-night Dearest I am just longing to see you
Lots & lots & lots of love & xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From Yours only & forever,
Marion