Michael Billings Collection - Wallet 7 - Part 7 of 12

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I shall be awaiting the postman very eagerly as ever 
tomorrow and get the same kick out of a letter as I 
ever did. I'm really not so cut up about leaving 
as I would have been a while back as in the letters 
from you since I came back here, a philosophy 
bespeaking courage and fortitude has heavily under 
scored your letters and you are stronger now than I have 
ever known you. So its an encouragement to know 
that my heart's affairs lie in such sterling hands 
and I beg of you, Kay, not to worry over me but to 
carry on and bear that marvellous child we both 
desire more than anything else on earth. When all 
is said and done, your predicament is worse than 
min mine so its absurd really to be anxious about 
me when you will need all your resources on your own 
account. 
Glad the pictures still find you a 
fan and hope you'll feel up to going for quite a long 
time yet as pleasures are few and far between these 
days. By the way, I forgot to thank you for the ten bob 
which I applied as you suggested. Its awfully sweet of 
you to do that but I feel guilty getting money from your 
meagre purse. Your doing a swell job making ends 
meet and frankly I don't know how you do all the 
buying out of your purse for two persons. So with thanks 
to God for having such a beaut wife, I toddle off 
to bed sending you every atom of love, darling. Micky

AIR MAIL 
3.4.43 

Mrs. M. Billings 
548 Barkers Road 
East Hawthorn 
Victoria

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3.4.43 
Darling Kay, 
Howdy, for on this sunny & warm 
morn that this letter should encounter en route to 
your letterbox. Permit me to present my most 
affectionate respects to you, my sweetheart and trust you 
are right at your top. For my part, I am jolly well 
and nothing would please me more than to know 
you are the same. The mail today has not arrived 
yet but after missing yesterday I'm very hopeful today. 
Am very busy doing extra jobs partly in preparation 
for a reason you know well. It won't be long now 
I fear as indications point to the deed bearing fruit 
soon. Of course nothing has been disclosed but you 
can usually tell the genuine signs and portents. So 
pleased in your recent letters you have given me a 
full descriptions of your activities. Your progress and that 
of Master Richard. Never hesitate, pet, to give me 
plenty of that dope as I just lap it all up. Richard 
and you are my biggest link with the real life, the one 
I'm bursting to get back to and only by the letters 
from you can I keep properly in touch with what is 
going on. So spread yourself as much as you feel 
inclined within the limits of your strength and energy. 
Goody, goody, mail has just arrived and with it, 
your April Fool's day epistle and great was my joy to 
read that you feel pretty good.

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I'm glad you did not subject yourself to the fatigue of going 
to see the March as by all accounts the crowd was 
terrific and you might have got a buffeting, quite apart
from the emotional tensions. I haven't seen the 
old folks for a week but will drop in tomorrow. 
Last night I went to the Regent and saw Sullivan's 
Travels and it was jolly good I thought. You must 
be feeling pretty healthy and sane when you can 
put your mind so far ahead to an orgy of clothes 
buying. Good wheeze, after your nine months of 
penance you surely deserve a spot of pleasure so 
go to it, mug. It grieves me to think that I don't 
look like having the pleasure of beholding you on the 
first day you sallied forth in your shining apparel 
I feel the same as you do about the time that has 
elapsed since I last saw you and it seems a long 
time. I vow we'll make the pan hot next time I get 
down so you had better get in all that rest now, you'll 
need it. Truth to t tell, I sometimes grudge the 
time that we've missed together particularly when I 
pass the little house you lived in up here. I can 
almost see you standing on the steps waiting for me 
and then I'm past sighing for the days that are gone. 
Well enough repining today, plug 
along, my darling lover and present or absent, I'm 
mad about you and send you a big kiss as a token 
of my ardor. Micky 

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AIR MAIL 
3.4.43 

Mrs. M. Billings 
548 Barkers Road 
East Hawthorn 
Victoria

5. 4. 43 
Darling. 
Magnificent my treasure, just the three 
letters from you this morning, 9th & 31st March and 
2nd April. I'm very annoyed about the first one 
being so long delayed for no reason at all as it 
was a beautiful letter and certainly deserved a better 
fate than to be loitering on a post office shelf. 
It was a letter written by a very fine person and 
as it was your response to the news of impending 
departure, you will realise my ire at it being delayed. 
However enough of moans. I'm so pleased the postie 
continues to treat you kindly, you can depend upon it 
I will wheel them out as often as possible. The weather 
down there must have been a revelation, very timely 
in your case as the bright weather certainly has a 
big bearing on one's outlook. I like to know that 
all these factors favor you as any lightening of your 
burden pleases me immensely. Sorry the smokes 
are such a rarity, I hope to do something about it so 
in a small way keep your hopes high. And please 
dont be so mercenary. it is a pleasure to be able to 
do a little thing for you. your gratitude is more than 
sufficient reward. 
Its sweet of you to tell me you 
love me as much as ever and in such a jolly 
youthful way. Soon maybe we shall have an

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delicious reunion and prove to each other that tt our 
love courses ever so strongly in the old veins, love 
is a great thing particularly so when its meaning 
can be transmitted personally. When we're together 
again, I just wont be able to stop grabbing hold 
of you and kissing and caressing you the whole day 
through. Thats one thing about our love that's so 
evident, its no [[pale]] thing of dreams and conventions, 
you're so real and natural, a true woman in every 
sense of the word and making love to you is a 
tense, tingling thing far removed from the abstract. 
Thats why its hard when we are forced into long 
separation. we were made for each other, to be with 
the other. to do things, in short to live together, 
a man to be with his own woman to shelter her 
and depend upon her. each fulfilling their own part 
of a glorious contract. Do you know that I miss you 
most at the same time as you do me, at night when 
the world has done with us and life means only you 
and me. Thats when our beings are drawn unerringly 
to the other and naturally the absence of the other 
now brings on that aching feeling. It was wonderful 
up here when we used to hop into the cool 
white sheets and immediately my questing arms found 
the softly rounded smoothness of my lovely bride 
who so prettily nestled in my embrace and whose 
parted lips quickly sought a lovers kiss.

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When I lie wide eyed on my solitary bunk now my 
thoughts ever turn to you and I glumly picture what 
might have been but for man's inhumanity. I see 
again your shining eyes upturned to gaze into mine, 
the white oval of your dear face crowned by a mist 
of curls, your breath quickening as the spell of love 
takes possession of you, the multitude of crushing 
kisses exchanged rapturously. Although secondhand, 
a feeling of exultation flows through me and I 
humbly give thanks that I was priviliged to be 
the chosen of she who is a complete woman who 
in giving herself freely to me. gave me everything. 
That such a love has been crowned by such a 
blessing causes no wonder to me and the child 
that is to be born of such a union must 
flourish and be a source of pride and pleasure 
to she who endures so much to bear the mite. 
I hope darling these recollections 
that fortify me so much are not too poignant for 
you but as we once, not so long ago, drank deeply 
at the fountain of love so I vow shall we do 
so again, this time in the shadow of the cradle 
of ou the first fruits of that love. So keep praying 
bundle darling that it wont be long delayed, I 
do love you always and ever and kiss your 
photo as I would you and will in a while 
Micky 

AIR MAIL 
5.4.43

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