Mi 09./Mo 14.08.1933, Brief von Ena Cox an Anneliese: “We number about 10 altogether so you can imagine the house is quite full”

Burleigh, Hursley Road, Chandlers Ford, Southampton.

Aug 9^th.

Dear Anneliese,

I wonder if I am forgiven for being so long in writing to you. Time flies as quickly one does not realize how the weeks go.

What a very busy person you are now. Have you learnt to hammer a nail? & to saw a log of wood? Don’t forget that whatever you do – I should imagine the nursing was very interesting, I have always liked it myself.

Leni tells me Walter has been in Schwelm with you & you are going to be publicly engaged next month – George & I wish you both our sincerest good wishes.

Have you made any more sausage rolls. Leni has made sponges but no pastry. I have a very nice new oven and primer “Hestia” – no more wicks to clean, all primus stoves & very easy to look after. We are also going to have our bedroom & the bathroom painted – papered after our holiday – the garden

Aug 14^th
This letter will never be finished, it seems hopeless to get a quiet five minutes. I will try & continue from “the garden”!

looks fairly representable but this very dry heat has finished the flowers & the grass is very burnt up – we have heaps of vegetables which is very nice. We are all staying at S’sea at present for a month. My brother is home & also an Aunt’s cousin from New York. We number about 10 altogether so you can imagine the house is quite full.

Leni sends you her love & thanks you for her letter received on her birthday. She will write soon – at the moment she has lots to write & lots to do.

Christopher is very well. He thoroughly enjoyed his “German train book”, he calls it that so he can distinguish it from his others, it sounds so grand! It was very sweet of you to think of him. He is quite grown up & talks such a lot. Always questions. “What are you doing?” “Why?” One’s mind becomes tired by the end of the day.

Leni is having a great deal of pain with her feet. She has very bad corns & deformed toes, I hope sincerely her parents will let her have treatment for them as it is very wrong for her to go on as she is now – how she walks I do not know.

Enclosed is a snap of Christopher. We shall be taking some more & if they are good I will send you some.

Please give my kind regards to your parents & Walter.

Yours affect’ly
Ena.