Letters between Malcolm William Keshan and Dorothy Williams, July-December 1943 - Part 17

KRIEGSGEFANGEKENPOST
PAR AVION
Aust. - U.S.A. -Portugal

Sgt. N.W. Kesham,
Australian Prisoner of War No. 1747 in Germany,
OFLAG 111 C.
GERMANY.
198 

Miss D. Williams, 37 Byrnes Street, Bexley, N.S.W.
Australia.
3 Opened by Censor
3 Opened by Censor
3 Passed by Censor 301

AIR MAIL

KRIEGSGEFANGENENPOST
NX11067
SGT. KESHAM. M.W.
AUSTRALIAN PRISONER OF WAR 3768
STALAG 383,
GERMANY

MISS D. WILLIAMS,
37 Byrnes Street,
BEXLEY. N.S.W.
AUSTRALIA.
26th December, 1943.

Stalag 383
15
Geprűft

Dearest Mac,
From me to you - a Happy Christmas darling!
Of course I wished you that yesterday morning, as
soon as I woke up - did you hear me? It was a very
quiet Christmas Day, Mac. Lots of nice presents (with
enough powder to last me two years.) a beautiful swim
at Cronulla in the afternoon, then Christmas dinner at
night.  Norma came around, and I invited one of the
boys from work, also. (He's merely a good friend, Mac,
who had nowhere to go for Christmas.) I saw your
father when I visited them on Thursday evening. They
are all exceptionally well dear - missing you, especially
your mother. I really believe she'll go crazy with
joy when she sees you again. And she'll not be the
only one either, Mac. I've just been having a glorious
time - the young lad across the road bought a
horse and to day he brought 'Bill' over for me
to ride: He's a lovely animal - just as frisky as
can be, and after we'd ridden him for awhile; we
took him inside and hosed him down and polish-
ed him beautifully until he shone like a piece of

copper. Would you still love me if I smelt all
"horsey" and had smudges on my face? That's how
I am right now, honey. There was something else I
meant to tell you about Mac - my nicest Christmas
present - a letter from you with the big photo of four
of your pals, including you, I mean. Mum handed
it to me on Christmas morning and I could have
hugged you when I saw the photo darling. You
look so brown and so well, darling! Bet you'd just
washed your hair too and just couldn't do anything
with it. Remember how I teased you about your
mop? That letter was dated 7th Sept and through the
week I received two others, 21st Aug and 10 Oct, so you
can see the mail is arriving well, of late. And believe
me - it's wonderful to get your letters Mac. They are
never boring to me my dearest, nordo they make me blue
- well, not often anyhow. Gee, you should see my brown
arm on the writing paper Mac - I'm really getting
a tan up. Say, when are you coming home to have
a swim with me? Maybe I'd better say, when are
you coming home? I pray it won't be long my
darling, but I can wait, nevertheless. That's cause
I love you so much Mac.  Love from all - all of mine
Dorothy