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My darling,
Yours has just come and I am tremendously cheered to have it. It is nice to hear that things seem to be going well so far – how awful to have to qualify one's rapture by ‘so fars’ and ‘up to the presents’!
They have let people in to the strawberry fields at 6d a time because they could not gather them. The field near here is free. Although the whole village had been there the previous day, Parthenope, Julian and Nicola collected 11½ lbs of beauties in an hour!
I do feel rested despite some horrid anxieties – or is it because of them? I never feel at all sure that anxiety is bad for me – I find it often seems to have a good effect. But I do miss you terribly even though I am thrilled by the thought of how much you do for me and the children and how wonderful it is to have such a loving and lovely wife. It is almost a compensation that I am always thinking of you …