Michael Billings Collection - Wallet 7 - Part 12 of 12

15.4.43
BRISBANE
Queen Street
10 AM
10   16 APR   10

1943
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Mrs. M. Billings
548 Barkers Road
East Hawthorn
Victoria

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17.4.1943

Darling Kay.
I open in conventional
form by presenting my ardent love
and best respects to you as befits a
gunner and a gentleman. I had your
letters of 13th and 14th April yesterday
and as the sands run out, letters from
you assume greater meaning and significance
than usual. So many thanks, my
luscious lovely and may there be many
more of them for they are mighty fine
medicine for the faded swaddy. Pleased
too, that mine are catching up with
you regularly and promptly and I see
my small gift has arrived to ease
the shortage also. So what with one
thing and another, things could be
worse and your buoyant health and
baby's progress are not the least of the
good things. In fact, your outlook
physical and mental is a credit to
you. Sweet, and as I gaze into the
crystal, my fears and anxieties melt

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melt before your sturdy assurances that
the happy event, although fraught with
a sticky hour or two, bids fair to be
the show of a lifetime for us. Your love
for the child is now a consuming thing
and the way you feel about it all
will comfort and fortify you when the
day comes for him to repay his mummy
and turn out to be the world's finest
babe.  As you sagely explain, the thought
of a childless life to a natural mother
is a miserable one and I repeat that
when the days comes I shall be
deliriously happy and proud to be the
father of the child such a beaut girl
has gives me after reading your
letter. I realise I'm a fusspot to
worry over it all because if a sound
sane person like you is going to have a
lot of bother, it wouldn't make sense
at all. Added to that, your desire
for the little one is a further guarantee
of fair weather. I will therefore stop

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messing about and leave it to you.
Youre more than equal to your job
and I shall be pleased if I do mine as
well.
The weather up here would
be right up you alley just now, fine
and warm by day but very chilly
of nights. With no straw and the
blankets light on. Sleeping has become
an art but I'm managing to grab a
few  hours being a warm blooded
animal. You would know about that
and its a pity I'm not there with 
you as winter approaches to dish out
some of the surplus warmth to you
neath snowy sheets etc. Something
I overlooked, the pipe cleaners blew
in OK and with the beaut pipe
wire mean some mighty sweet puffing. -
Youre a pal!
Cheerio, now. Sweetheart,
and I love every inch of you. Catch
this big kiss. Micky

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17.4.43

BRISBANE
QLD AUST
12-MN
10   18 APR   10
1943

AIRMAIL
Mrs. M Billings
548 Barkers Roads
East Hawthorn
Victoria
 

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Darling Kay.
Guess where I'm writing this from,
old bun? Yep today I've paid a visit to our
old chums. Mr & Mrs Reg. and have just returned
from a chat with Gran who is extra well and sends
you her love. The others do the same and wish you
all the best. As for myself. I pray and expect that
you maintain the excellent form you confessed to in
your last letter. I missed out on the mail yesterday,
you bad puss and today being Sunday, mail is orf.
I therefore look forward to a goodly chunk of wordy
discourse from you tomorrow and woe betide you,
my fine feathered friend, if my expectations are dashed 
to the ground. I shall see my solicitor or something.
I hope and trust you are not being neglected in that
respect and find many of my gems reposing in your
letterbox. No change in the stalemate [[obtaining?]] here
and I'm playing the role of Micawber to perfection.
There's plenty of leave going but after such a surfeit of
this fair city. Hectic time yesterday, listened to the
radio and had a few bets, had tea, a stroll before
sunset: found beers, a game of billiards, fish and chip
supper and home to bed. I won 12/- on the nags.

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and the extra few bob will be handy for a tilt at the fleshpots.
You certainly are a versatile party. Your lovely gift, the briar is now
broken in and is a very tasty smoker. Once upon a time, the
very thought of a pipe bought by a woman would have been atrocious
but I take it all back.  You've  sure got what it takes, precious.
I suppose you know that the Reids have formed the parents guild
and the light has once more shone on old Doug's furrowed brow.
Like a schoolboy he was today and mighty pleased all went way
well.  So now you know what you have to beat and in the idiom
of the turf, the last man wins the race. I suppose you'll toddle
over to cast your expert eye over the newcomer and fairly wallow in
a discussion on the details.  Another darlin' daughter, it must be the
season for a boost in the female population.
One of chaps, [[Rod Doulee?]] whom you met
up here was wed to a charming girl, a nurse from the military
hospital up here and they are staying in our little room. They just
had their tea a while ago and have access to the sanctum we know
so well. Lucky cows! A clear vision of you and I doing the same
on many a night rises before and brings back lively recollections
of our honeymoon within its portals. I hope this pair have as
much fun and joy as we did there but I doubt it very much.

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Without moaning, it shows me clearly how devoid of
interest this hermits existence is and just how wonderful
life was when you were here to share it with me. Can
you wonder that when I sit in this very place when we
loved without stint that memories of those days and
nights raced through my mind. Some more fragrant than
others lingering like a heady perfume. Often you were
like that and I was intoxicated by a silvery shower
of kisses and caresses that made me want to do circus
tricks until the impact of the love you poured out
flung me completely under your spell and I was as putty
in your hands. A while ago you wrote that you felt
possessive toward me, little wonder you feel like that
as you have possessed me so often that I am yours always.
That is why I feel so satisfied and happy about our
love life, at first you were somewhat an innocent maid
yet one possessed of the true woman's instincts, the two
at first getting a little in the other's way. I loved you
such a lot then as your innate purity was a precious
thing to me and I thanked God that he had given
me for a mate, one so lovely and unspoiled by this
sordid business called experience. You learned to take
your man as was your right as his wife and as your
knowledge and confidence grew, you quickly shed the

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inhibitions of that at first make the properly bred girl hesitant and for
mine I say that no one was ever loved with such joyous abandon
and tingling ardor than I was. I know you don't exaggerate when you
declare that you'll do such a lot to make me happy. You just have to
be to me as you were up here and that will more than suffice.
We must pray that the day is near when your vow can be put into practice
as absence from your side is agonising. Some might say to find a
substitute while we are apart but you are the yardstick by which I
measure other girls and I could never hope to meet any one of your
standard. I'm always thankful I was fortunate enough to keep myself
clean until I met the lover I sought. I admit I wanted you badly
before and during the time I was away but when at last my dreams
came true and we  possessed each other for the first time, I ascended
to a pinnacle that must have been near to heaven itself. Perhaps we
were somewhat ignorant on sexual matters but it was a beautiful thing
to progress from the groping stage to a more mature stage which had 
so gloriously culminated in my own darling approaching the dignity of 
motherhood. Perhaps it was right and proper that we should go from 
step by step until we had loved to such ecstatic heights that
the fruits of that love had to find this natural outlet and thus
it has happened.

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Its a good anyway for our babe that he was conceived
as the purpose of something fine and yet so thrilling by
a first class girl and our first born will always serve
as a reminder to me of those perfect times in which I
found the person to make my life something that has
everything.
I close now, darling and feel pretty
good now I've been able to have an intimate talk to
the one person who I can talk to and who understands
what I say. Its perhaps superfluous for me to say
I love you now and forever but that's just what I do.
I'll shut my eyes and think I'm kissing your lips for
the first time way back in the 30's, they were so sweet
then and never lost their sweetness. Bye. Bye. treasure.
The old folks all send their love and good wishes.
Micky

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BRISBANE
QLD AUST.
12-MN
10  18 APR  10
1943

AIR MAIL
18 4 43
Mrs. M. Billings
548 Barkers Road
East Hawthorn
Victoria

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War Memorial