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Tags: occupation, Dame of Sark, Sibyl Hathaway, Sark
Date: 29 July 2008 22:05:08
September 11th [1941]
Dear Mrs Le Tissier
Thank you for your letter - The House is the M.O.H's house usually. It is quite comfortably furnished - It has a petrol gas plaut, with cooker, geyser and light but we are not now able to get the quality petrol for this, it also has a good coal range and bath water boiler. The allowance of coal here is ½ CWT a month as in Guernsey. There are paraffin lamps. We do not yet know what the paraffin ration is to be from October.
There is everything in the House including plate and linen. The garden is just a lawn and a few flower beds and a few perches of Kitchen garden at the back. Water is both main water tanks and also a well for drinking water.
Telephone.
The salary is £150.
I could see that your husband has more garden if he wishes. There is an unoccupied House (Le Manoir) which has a good garden free. There is a very ready sale here for vegetables as there is no market garden in Sark.
The 2 sitting room fireplaces are modern Devon type grates and burn wood or anything.
We should be glad to do all we could for you, as it is anxious work having so many people without trained help in illness.
Yours sincerely
Sibyl Hathaway