Ambrose is ill for the most part of July with tonsilitis, and has to eat 'some sort of baby's food'. She is excited to hear from Short about his time in Japan. By August, she is heathy again and has spent some time on holiday at a bungalow in Highcliffe. She will have been off work for 5 weeks. Most of the content of her August letters concerns friends and family, and how much she misses Short. She goes on Holiday to Eastbourne at the end of August, and sends Short a postcard, saying 'you would love it here - better than all the Indias in the World'. She sends a longer letter describing her trip. 30th August she writes 'yesterday was the wettest day in Southampton for 3 years', and that she and her friends have already planned next year's holiday to Jersey. In the same letter she updates Short on the movements of his first ship, HMT NEURALIA, which is soon to be leaving Southampton docks for the 'trooping season'. In September, Ambrose writes about her daily activities at work, films she has seen, and remarks upon an article in the papers about the birth of quintuplets.