Edition Bobbett1. Texts by Elizabeth F. Bobbett: 1.1.1. Correspondence, Private letters
1969 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to May Beveridge, 18.05.1969
Source: Archives of Rural History (ARH), Elizabeth McLoughlin Papers
My dear May. I have just got down to digest you last letter of 28th April. You certainly are a chatter-box; how that you can overtake it all I don’t know.
Now I want to have the few days free to be with you so don’t think you are putting off my taking guests. I don’t worry much about getting guests for all the summer . I can only put up three but seldom have three. I have a double bed in one room and a large single bed in the other guest room.
It will be no trouble for me to put you and Jim up for 27th and 28th July which are I think the dates you state. Also when you are in Dublin staying with your brothers I have several relatives I can always stay with for a night or two and I could drive you about and out to Gerrard’s if you need me. I want just have time to talk to you. I wont have any animals to look after at that time as they are all out on the fields, except the fowl.
You will enjoy my sun-lounge and can relacks, or should it be relax. I am a bad speller at times. You said you would ring me when you arrived at the hotel Intercontinental. No I shall ring you at night, as I would only be waiting at a neighbour’s house for you to ring me, and God knows what time that might be. I am going in to Wicklow to-morrow and will ask my Garage Man what the charge would be to hire a car as I have no idea. So I shall add to this before posting.
Now you said you had got fur to make a hat, so please don’t bring me anything else as a present. It is very kind of you to think of the hat. I have all I need in the way of clothes and things for the house. In fact I am trying to get rid of things. I would rather have two gallons of petrol for the car when you are over. It is gone up on our Budget 3d a gal. The best is now 6/6 a gal.
It is getting dark and not worth while putting on the light as I am off to bed.
Fondest love from Lillie.
20th May 1969. I asked at my garage about charges for hiring a car. The man could not give me exact prices as he has no connection with Car Hire Firms but said it would be £25 to £30 a week. And one would need to book now for end of July or August. He gave me names of two very good Firms. 1) Herts Rent a Car. Baggot St Bridge Dublin 4, 2) Pauls service Station and Car Hire, Dublin Road [?].