1 Sunday morning
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3 Darling Mary
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5 Thermom. 106 in the shades, one's nearly melted & can't write,
6especially when one isn't so light as one used to be! I seem to be
7radiating heat all round. I wonder if everyone feels so when they are
8pregnant! I got a wire from you, darling, on Wednesday. You must have
9thought it was my birthday which was ^will be^ the 24th of March. Thanks
10for the sweet thought of me. ?Tuesday^?Thursday^ was Cron's birthday so
11I told it him it would do for him. Or were you thinking of my wedding
12day which is the 24th of next month?
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14 I am very worried about something which I must write to you about
15though I would rather never say anything about unpleasant things. Its
16about doctor Watkins. I had arranged to have Dr Ashe long ago (if
17Alice Corthorn didn't come out to attend me as, she may yet: she is
18now a full fledged London M.B.) but I took a nurse whom Dr Watkins
19recommended. When I'd taken her it turned out that Dr Ashe would not
20work with her, & I've been obliged to pay her the £10 to be ride of.
21Dr Watkins is now in a great rage, & wrote a most insulting letter to
22Cron!, who has had nothing whatever to do with the matter. I wrote a
23long letter to Watkins last night but as things stand I think it would
24be painful if you went there.
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26 Between you & me in strict confidence, Dr Ashe says the nurse Dr
27Watkins recommended drinks terribly & of course I could not have her,
28& Ashe said he would not take my case if I had her. This is all
29private. The least said the soonest mended. I only mention this to you
30because of what I wrote last week about Mrs Watkins having asked you.
31I have another nurse, a young girl who I know does not drink. This has
32all tired me so much mentally & physically. I wish I were a Kaffir
33woman & could go away & have my little baby in the velt by myself, &
34come back with it tied to my back. I should have thought living as
35Cron & I do here quite alone by ourselves & never going out or seeing
36any one, we might have kept out of Kimberley littleness & quarrels -
37but it seems not.
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39 Are your little ones growing well
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41 ^I wish I could see them.
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43 Olive^
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45 ^I like Dr Watkins very much. I can't understand what made him write
46such a letter to Cron about the nurse, when poor Cron has never seen
47her or had anything to do with it. Its a funny world. Cron's been very
48sweet about it. He simply returned Watkin's letter & said nothing.
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50 Olive^
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