Michael Billings Collection - Wallet 14 - Part 8 of 13
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PR00610
Australian War Museum
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VX 38483. Sgt. M. Billings
District Accounts Office
New Guinea. 24.5.44
Darling Kay,
Greetings, gay sprite and
how are you? Extra well, I
trust. Likewise Master Richard.
No more letters from you since last
I wrote but your padlock came in
tonight so perhaps the postie will
deliver himself of a letter in the
morning. Thanks a lot for your
promptitude, Sweet.
Afraid this promises to be
a short one for I’ve done nothing &
been nowhere to whip up any news.
Things in general are very dull
& quiet and I suffer from one big
preoccupation of course, how long
more. Have a bit more to add
in that respect to my last. My
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relief has taken over from me so
its just a case of waiting. As far
as I can see, until the pistol fires.
Unless, of course some other damn
reason comes up to protract our
departure. After a survey, however,
the position seems O.K and at
last, I think I'm on the threshold of
success. I'm very anxious to make
Melbourne by the 22 June, if not
before but of course it all in the
lap of the gods. Still, we are
definitely in the holiday season
so that will fill you with delight
no doubt. At the risk of being boringly
repetitious, I repeat I'm in a fever
of impatience to bide with you and
Richard and breathe the precious
air of freedom again. Would it be
stretching it too far to say you will
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consider me a ray of sunshine around
the place. Never have I felt such an
eagerness or an exhilaration as comes
over me when I envisage the perfect
joy of being with you & Richard. It
is really everything to me and my
heart skips a beat every time I
reflect upon the great times soon to be
mine. I feel absurdly youthful, perhaps
childish, when I hark back to all the
lovely things we shared and hope
we can live a lot of those days over
again. In fact, that's the reason
I get off for a swim & sun at every
chance for I want to get the rot
out of me and feel a ball of muscle
when I come home. Dont forget, I'm
a very sweet chap, you told me so
yourself so having that advantage
should stand me high in your
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graces and favors. Gee, I'm looking
forward to our first night together,
it will be regal to be beside you
in that bower of snowy peace, and comfort with only your mass of curls
to give color to the bed and just let
the realisation of your nearness soak
through me like a warm bath.
I'm afraid though you will not be
content to leave me long in dreamy
meditation unless you have undergone
a radical change. Still, after months
of stagnation up here, it will be
heavenly to be in an atmosphere
charged with the electricity of long,
suppressed emotion tempered by
the healing power of that essence of
enduring sweet love. You have a great
capacity for love, Sweetheart mine
and lucky am I to be the one to
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receive such a vast proportion of it.
A friend of mine is going to post you
a parcel from Melbourne but
trust me it won't be for awhile yet
as he can't get the stuff down there
yet. However hang on to it and
we will share it when I blow in.
It will be good too, we shall enjoy
the contents. Well Sweet, thats
all I can muster up at present
but will tro trot out a few out a few
more pages shortly particularly
if you come good in the interim.
Cheerio, precious, the usual
big kiss to the laddie. As
I explained a bit earlier, I'm
a whole lot your way at present
but wait till I see you.
Micky
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Michael Billings
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Address:-
Mrs. M. Billings
536 Whitehorse Rd
Surrey Hills Victoria
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VX38483 Sgt. M. Billings
District Accounts Office,
New Guinea. 28. 5. 44
Darling Kay,
It is a grim story I have to tell and all. Not the slightest
sign of a letter from you and I had such high hopes, too when a mail came
in yesterday. That makes it a whole week since I devoured your many
lines and after the service we have been getting lately, a week seems a
year. However, I'm sure the wheel of fortune will swing in my direction
shortly and maybe, the accumulation will all come at once. I look forward
to one every Sunday and when nothing turned up yesterday, the game stunk.
Well, enough lamenting and get on with it. I trust that you
and the little bloke are coasting along in your best style and if possible
improving on recent performances. The mite seems to be more than
sufficient and after hearing of the latest escapade, I'm horrified. After
all your schooling him to be a young gent, fancy such a reversion. He's
certainly got a queer sense of humor to go in for that and I know his
glee would hardly be shared by you. Your spouse is doing O.K. and
greatly improved in spirit anyway, since being told a trip in your
direction impends. as you can guess, I'm like a blue bottomed fly, trying
to find out just when this great event takes shape. Still a bit obscure
but, darling mine, its right on the way now and no kidding. Its just a
matter of getting shoved out and send along but with priorities,
facilities and all that stuff, you have to first get in the line and then
move up with it until at last,there you are,right in front. So thats how
it it is exactly and I just can't say when my name will be called. Still
I'm sure that much will cause a smile to crease your grim features. I'm
most anxious to be home for the 22nd and there must be a chance of
making it. My life these days is filled with dreams of being with you
and I am quite impervious to the problems of New Guinea and its
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denizens. The fact that soon I shall see you and Richard and actually live
with you easily pushes everything else into the background and I am
finding it hard to settle down and write. It seems that way to me now
that here I am sending out my old monotonous stuff and in but a short
time, I shall be able to say the things I want to tell you,the way I want
to tell them. It will be marvellous when we can yarn away to each other
laugh away at our little jokes and do lots of things so dear to, our hearts
in days gone by. Will keep you up to date with the latest good guts, if
any, as I suppose you are near that stage where you will trace my progress
from place to place. I really am full of wild imaginings these days and
quite incapable of coherency on paper.
In any case, this joint is very quiet and dull and
it is only of a Friday that I rouse myself and go off to the flicks for
a bit of entertainment. Saw the Man in Grey last week,an English picture
and really top-notch ,particularly as it was a period show and almost
free of war. Been doing a bit of swimming as a measure to freshen me up
to come home. The weather has been much cooler this week and consequently
I feel more alive. Apart from these riotous orgies, I have been a staid
homebody.
Well,pretty maid, that brings to a close yet another bunch
of words from Micky and in sending you earnest promise of the best brand
of love,here's hoping that soon,there will be more loving and less writing.XXX Be kind to Richard although he a wretched little stinker and give him a
kiss from Dad. Good night, sweet Kay ,its coming true soon,
Micky
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