Thursday
Aberdeen
Dearest,
For a weekend letter this will be definitely the shortest on record, I’m afraid, but it cannot be helped. We have had a busy day today and I’m going back again tonight. So far as I can see the procedure is not going to worry us a lot but the Morse is a bit slow and I want to get all the practice I can. Funnily enough I can manage quite well on cypher (groups of figures), code (groups of letters without sequence) and a mixture of both, but when it come down to plain English my mind just wanders. It is only a matter of concentration, I think, and we still have a full week before our exam. In any case the exam will be slower than we are receiving at now.
Just back from Torry after a couple of hours fairly solid work and I feel quite pleased with what has been done. Let’s hope it will bear fruit in the morning.
Mother’s parcel, which you evidently addressed, arrived tonight. Will you thank her for it if you see her during the weekend? I’ll try to scribble her a note during the weekend. Tomorrow night I’ll get down to Hutcheon Street and find the full address so that you should have it well before you dump the children. I’m not making any attempt to answer your letters now because I don’t think there is anything outstanding to be answered. Have vapours started? An important question now!
Bye, sweet. Be seeing you in less than a week from the time you receive this! Nice work. Bye for now, pet.
All your own,
Arthur
Apr 231942