Postcard From Bessie
Post Card.
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Dear Mrs Massey
I arrived over here at night & it was just teaming with rain when I landed & it was terribly rough coming over of cause I was sick but my word I am making up for lost timeI am having a royal time I won’t feel like coming back up their
love to all from Bessie
Mrs Massey
Whana Whana
Hastings
H.B.
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Postcard is from the postcard album of Elsie Massey, a girl living on Whana Whana Station, also known as Dot or Biddie. The station cook, Tom Rouse, bought her the album in January 1911 and her collection of postcards and photos includes the First World War. This postcard is written to Elsie’s mother, Fanny Edith Massey by Bessie who is unknown.
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