The young man wrote to his future father-in-law: “My appointment to a post at the Museum for Antiquities will, no doubt, induce you to "'entrust your daughter to me.” “John, I found this letter in your coat pocket. I asked you to post it a month ago.” “Yes, I remember. I look that coat off for you to stitch a button on, and it isn’t on yet.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 7
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