BCARS
Add MSS 412, Box 6 File 3
8 Dec.
Dear Miss O’Reilly
Thank you so much for your letter today. I report to say I have not received so far the one your wrote to the Mediterranean but it may turn up in time. I never was well after I got back to Malta, and eventually had to give up. It was a return of the old complaint, insomnia &c. (only perhaps you did not know I had an “old complaint”). I am just finishing 6 weeks repose or attempts at it and going to see the Admty Doctors in London on Monday, who I hope will pass me as fit, as I must hurry off to sea again if I am ever to be promoted at all. I had full intended to recommission & I miss the little ship so much, but I came home with all the old lot. My people are all well, many thanks and I hope your father has got over the accident to his leg. Kind regards to all at Point Ellice. I will write & let you know what happens to me at the end of the year. It is so kind of you to take such interest in my goings on. Now I think of it, I wish you all a Merry Xmas. Ever your sincerely
Harry Stanhope
P.S. I am staying with the only married brother. I dont know if you met him or his wife.
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