Dearest Dear - Am invigilating exams - & forgot to bring my pad. I enclose invitation for Monday - Miss Hewling is bringing a male friend who apparently reels magnificently - so we're going to ask him to give us all a lesson! Do come - because you needn't dance all the time & we're going to have beer & sausages.
Miss X is looking forward to seeing us all on Saturday - she was telling the rest of the staff at Break that she was having 3 generations of "Ormiston" to tea! - then she said it was a pity I couldn't manufacture a baby before then to make it 4 generations!! - But she thought perhaps bringing you was the next best thing!!
- Next Tuesday the Art Society hope to go to the Open Air Theatre - so if it's fine enough I'm afraid I shan't be able to come up to you.
This weather is the limit - my cold is still annoying.
My love for you grows more & more every day-
Mary Pleasant xxx
My very dearest dearest dear - My pad is downstairs & I don't want to see a soul again until supper time so I've torn a page out of my German book. It has been a frightful day - but very typical of the last school day before Speech Day. Miss Cross trying to squash in a hundred meetings - talks to the school - competitions for prizes & tidyings of the house! "God's Gift to Women" is upon me (and I've worked it out & find I shall start on Sept. 13th! - so I've cursed that all day too!)
Have just been across to Grannies & seen Mummy & Jill (both looking spruce & clean) & felt just like a jaded school-mistress! They said I looked a fright!
I can't go up to As You Like It - Miss X wants to do prize list after supper - and I'd rather see something with you tomorrow if I can - so I shall have to miss it. I see "Give us This Night" is at the Stoll too - but the Forum is nearer.
Patricia's friend has lent her her car for a week in the hols - so we're going to plan somewhere for the three of us to go camping! Me driving! - (I wish I dared ask her if we could borrow it for Penzance - or even hire it - but we shall have to see how our camping goes!)
Must stop & change - I love you more than words can tell - & if it hadn't been for Wed. I should be desperate - Your Mary P
(I'm sorry I'm so selfish about letter writing but I don't seem to be able to put myself in your place - & I long so much just to see your envelope on my plate!)
O.V.S.
Friday
Dear Ticky,
Mummy phoned up just after you had rung off to say I was to wait at school until Mr Lingwood could pick me up some time between 2 & 4 o'clock tomorrow! - as she wanted me to do some shopping for her in Kingston because Jack & Jill would be at Henley all day & I was to come home to help her with tea - she has Mrs Leslie & her son there. She was a bit cross about Sunday as she had understood you were definitely coming to Brighton on Sunday & had accepted the invitation to lunch for you. But I said it was my fault as I only told you about it yesterday (so she's disagreeable about us both now) - specially as we were coming back to the party on Sunday at 5. & she was looking forward to the drive with both of us. However - she says now she will never fix up anything for you again & all her plans for the weekend have been upset.
I think perhaps it would have been better if we'd given her to understand you couldn't come last weekend - & then changed it if you had decided you would come. I suppose something that happened at your meetings in the week made you feel you couldn't.
Anyway - I simply can't wait till Wednesday - whatever you can - & I'm just slightly and unreasonably cross, because I feel when I've got safely to Friday, my weekend's all right - & you could easily have decided against on Wednesday when we were saying how nice the bathe in the sea would be.
- Forget all this - I shan't care a bit tomorrow - & I'm a bit annoyed Mummy cares so much - because I told her I didn't.
- I expect it will be Wednesday in the end.
How did the speech go?
Love
Mary
35 Nevern Place
S.W.5.
3rd July 1936
My Darling Girl,
Just back from making my debut as a political public speaker. The speech went down all right and interested an ex-bus driver in the audience who spoke up and endorsed what I said. The chief thing is that now I am not a bit nervous of speaking. Next week my subject is "The United Front".
I should like to come to Brighton on Sunday, but I should be letting the Party down if I did. My trades union's Metropolitan District Council have actually decided to support the Demonstration of Welcome and they want every man behind the banner in order to show the whole union that there is a strong feeling for the United Front.
Actually too it is going to be very interesting. A lot of very famous people in the movement will be speaking from all parts of the world.
I do hope you will be able to come to Redhill with me tomorrow. we can spend the afternoon in the country all by ourselves. How did Patricia & Hasty P. like "The Seagull"? And what, if you know, did the Shakespeare Society think of Henry VIII?
I can hardly remember when I last saw you. It seems so long ago. But somehow dear, since Wednesday, I love you more. I don't mean gradually more, but a sudden jump more. I feel more strongly that we are one: Youandme. You know what I mean.
Goodbye. I must catch the post.
Your
Terrick
xxxxx
