WCP6361

[1]¹

10 York Terrace

Sidmouth,

S[outh]. Devon.

June 17. 1922

My dear Willie²

Thank you so much for sending me the photograph of baby³. I am afraid I cannot make much of it, because I have lost the focussing power in my eye, & am not able to see anything very clearly, & can not [sic] read writing or print, but I can get a general notion of things & see quite well eno’[ugh] to get about — I should much have liked to have seen you, but I know how difficult it is on a trip to pay a visit. I have no home of my own now, as I cannot find a home here, & have been hanging about in lodgings for about a year. I had a severe attack of shingles when I came [2] down last June, & am not yet free from the effects of it. I am afraid there is very little chance of my coming to B’[ourne]mouth — but if you do come this way again — will you let me know, I should be so pleased to see you & make acquaintance with your wife⁴. I am so glad that you have a wife & child, it would I know (& perhaps does) please your father much — he believed so strongly in married life — I am very glad that Violet⁵ has built herself a home. It was very plucky of her to undertake it — & reminds me so much of him — I shall try hard to get a house here, but as there seems no prospect, I may perhaps be driven to go back to Oxford — The above address is where I shall be to the end of July & I go to Buxton for August — but I am so well known here that the address Mrs Buckley Fisher — Sidmouth would find me. Thank you so much for writing — With kind regards to your wife

Yours affectionately | Arabella B Fisher⁶ [signature]