Sunday, 26 February 2012


Roslyn
Claremont grove
Woodford
13th May 1898

My dear husband,

I am sorry to find that my forbearance & silent endurance this past week has not produced a better & kindlier spirit in you, sorry to see that there is no shame or repentance for the months of inconvenience & suffering I have borne since we have been in this house only.
Remember if you have worked hard, so have I, as those who have seen me at work can testify - & also that for nearly nine months I have earned my own living - & now, when I have given up that living at your request  you calmly refuse to maintain either myself od the child, and you can sail out in the morning & leave us to obtain our dinner from anyone who is charitable enough to give us one, knowing you can get yours comfortably enough in town.
Now it is the end of the week again & I am in the same predicament as I was last Saturday, & I must take the same means of making provision.
I wish to be candid, to give you no grounds for your usual accusation – on Saturday last I borrowed the money to telegraph to my parents that they must either bring or send me money & of course my mother brought it & whatever we have had for our dinner I have provided with that money.
The account that is running at Mrs Chapman’s by no means provides us with suitable living – could you live on bread & butter & tea, or rather do you?
You are no doubt full of dark & bitter thoughts against myself, - take a little while to think over your own shortcomings & failure, search your own heart & see what it reveals.
Yours sorrowfully
Georgie Hockley


On a scrap of envelope is written in pencil..

You say that you have no money. I do not believe you. However, I leave you some as the butchers shop is not yet open I find

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