Letters from Lt Colin Douglas Simper to Mrs Irene Simper Wallet 2, Part 18

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Mrs C D Simper

C/o Blackwood P.O.
South Australia

C D Simper

22nd,                                                                  
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Darling Rene,

Hullo you beautiful thing I

guess it's no good disguising the fact

that I love you, did I have you

tricked on the envelope?, all my

own work. I spose you have gotten used

to my scrawlly address long before this.

Anyhow dearest wife 'tis sunday today

and I'd like to hurry along as these

days work just bobs up and ruins all

my best efforts at writing letters

As you have realized I have quite a

bit to answer in No 9., by the way 

No 11 arrived yesterday.

Gee darling I feel so proud of you, so

utterly full with love for you, you have 

just it darling  Our faith is Strong in

God and I know he will watch over

us, just as he has done always, you

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like I have found to trust Him makes

us happy and content.

I know you are OK honey because I feel

exactly as you do and I feel happier

than Ive ever been while away from 

you.

There's no doubt that I need you, want

you, none at all I could feel you near 

me last night, memories are so close these

days and I thrill anew at my thoughts 

of you and I as we were together.

OK.  OK.'  I remember now, mum XXX trying on

Brendas coat, on Eleanor and she did

look pretty in it

Talking of snaps I have sent my photos

home to you including the photo case

I have kept one of you and of our 

babies though, they are getting spoilt

up here the dampness gets into them

and those I have will probably soon

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be spoilt however I shall guard them

as best I can

Yes if you can forego your afternoon

nap you surely must love me just an

"ickle weeny bit.

You close No 9 still with a surging 

feeling of love and It's no good trying

to think otherwise. I have a contented

feeling these days that all is well on

the home front and can get on with

the "business" this end with a lighter

happier heart, "Knowing that I have 

nothing to worry about, nothing to worry

over.  That's saying a lot too, for you

and our babies, everyone home mean

not only now but the future to me &

this that we do now although it be

important, is not 1/10 the importance 

of our happiness.

Well now No 10. Well I shouldn't worry

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if I were Bet, Snow going to three dances

over the Easter, thats OK isn't it.

I know darn well I'd like to have

the opportunity, I want to learn to dance

properly, I want to be able to say to

you Honey, "We're going to a ball, &

dance, knowing that I will be able to

dance with you all night if necessary

Knowing that the best dances you'd 

have would be the ones you had 

with me, gee I should certainly be

proud of myself then. You who can 

tell, can judge the best & the worst

of dancers, and Im sure I could gain

that admission from you with lots of

practice.

The drink well Im not in agreeance

with that, except this, about 99% of

the chaps in the army drink, some

heavily and some mildly, they like it

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I don't know why, but, - it makes

them happy so it suits me, so long

as they don't get drunk,! if they do

well Im finished with them they have

fallen in my estimation. So Snow

may only be one of the 99%. Anyhow

that's his worry, she wishes he were

in N.Q. out of mischief, gosh she doesn't

sound too confident of him, I guess that

state of affairs doesn't suit me.

Anyway I could be camped right in

the centre of Holliwood and it wouldn't

worry me any, in fact I should

probably be bored stiff, that's true too.

I should certainly like to hear you two

singing the duet, and more so would

like to see you in costumes, what a 

turn.

Don't you realize C.D. that I could see

through all the dirt Eleanor aquired

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during the daytime?  why it isnt,

possible to cover up her darling face

and just think of the change, when

she emerges from a bath, it sort

of hit me in the id eye, and I look

at her anew and realize how sturdy

and well proportioned she is, how well

modelled her sweet face is. You

just take a look at her cheeks,

Go on! turn round,! look at them

glowing with a sort of inner good

health,  she just couldn't be a better

healthier girl.

I've read this letter No 10 darling

slowly quietly 2 or three times, knowing

its meaning, understanding your 

feelings 100% for I know from my own

feelings just what they are. I'd like

to thank you Honey not only for

this beautiful letter, not only because

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it's frank, but because its a reminder,

a simple true account of your feelings

I can see easily that each word

comes directly from your heart and the

feeling of elation, is that the word.?

I dunno but I feel as if we two

have no longer been just together, we've

been welded as one finally and for

always, I know that your love for me

is endless and lasting and I will

never have any fear of any petty

difference which we may have (its

too much to expect otherwise) I have

no fear of anything - anything at all,

coming between us ever., that is true love.

I feel sorry for those people that are

merely existing today, for those whose

lives are a battle to gain some measure

of happiness, for those that think that

they are happy because their tummy

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or their purse is filled, or for those

that because of their ability or 

inability to fulfil their sexual desires

think they are living. To achieve
then that which we have, something

which developed from the heart & mind

is no mean accomplishment, and were

others to see to feel, to know, just

how much our love means, I feel 

they would be amazed and jealous

I don't mean to sound as if we are

the only people in the world who know

love, far from it, for of all the 

millions and millions in it we are

just one of many, but not many I

dare say.

Well dear wife, I shall close this

now. I could write on of it all day

but if I wrote 50 pages Id be saying

no more, I'll be writing words and

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sentences, which mean nothing less

than these three simple words, which

has become so frequent in our letters

yet never losing their full meaning

and implications, I love you, simply that

Cheerio for today.

Who knows where Ill be tomorrow or

the next day or the next, certainly not 

us, who care little for were you at

the South Pole & I at the North, twould

make no difference at all to us.

I shall be O.K. honey, I am no fool

(where this job is concerned anyhow)

and you can rely on me to do my

very best in anything I should be

called on to do. That is important

to you I know. You may well be

proud of your ole man, for at last

happily he is doing his part

My fondest regards to everyone home

I trust they too are happy and contented

Bless our darling babies, for they

like you give my the desire to love

and live, to see them, guide them

make them believe that to be happy

whatever happens, to love freely and

fully, is the one aim in any life.

Au revoir my darling wife this letter
my darling may not make you smile

I hope not, but it should let

you see that I am happy well

and sparking on all six.

Regards to Bet and to Audrey

XXXXXXX  
For You only

Forever 
Col

 

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