Letter from Edward Thomas to his wife, Helen Thomas. Archival reference: 424/1/1/1/1/88
the JCR, and will send them. I am also writing up one or two "Specimen nights" nest week's JCR.
As to stays - they are hideous things, and I suppose they are only a fad of your Aunts, tho, if you were going to be disfigured by drooping breasts, I would prefer you wore them; and you could probably leave them off when you wished

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Lincoln College, Oxford.
12.ii.99

My dearest friend

I want to write, and yet I fell the only sincere thing I could say would be that I was "awfully glad" to get your letter this morning that I likei(sic) it. For I went out immediately afterwards and enjoyed a long walk in a storm of sleet for three hours. Now I am working in

and the man's room, with my chief aim - to get my letters done and begin to write and read.
Let me tell you the little news and go.
My aunt came up on Thursday, but I haven't seen her since - She was not well; she said however, that she left mother quite well. I began rowing on that day, tho my wrist wasn't

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quite mended: nor is it now; nevertheless I shall row in the races, and tomorrow I shall order my colours, and so incur another alarming debt of about 30 shillings. The Speaker hasn't accepted yet, so I have no prospect of money: (it is, by the way, In Praise of Indolence that I sent them). On Tuesday I shall have "Specimen Days" in