Mededelingen van het Cyriel Buysse Genootschap 20

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[Briefkaart van Virginie Loveling aan Arthur en Augusta Buysse]

Ghent Sunday Morning

10 o'clock 15 july '23⁽¹⁾

My dear Friends,

I got your long and nice letter in due process of time and rejoiced at its contents. Never mind the expense if bestowed for health and if it proves to give satisfactory results. The heat has past here all you can imagine of horror. We slept with all the windows broad opened, expecting some coolness but in vain. To-day rain and all of a sudden it is growing so dark, that I hardly can go on writing. On friday last I got a letter from the merchant carpenter, who made my invalid-chair, that he no longer took care of amending it and that I had to apply to another workingman for the changes I thought to be necessary. Kind regards.

I suffer a painful martyrdom by continuation

(1) Vgl. de Engelse kaart van Cyriel Buysse aan zijn tante van 14.5.1912 (MCBG I, 84). Waarschijnlijk is dit de laatste kaart die Virginie Loveling aan haar naaste familie stuurde. Na jaren van toenemende invaliditeit overleed ze op 1 december 1923.