Letter to Mother
30/04/1918
Last night on the work party John Wild and I were together for a long time, and we talked a lot about our folks at home
30/04/1918
Last night on the work party John Wild and I were together for a long time, and we talked a lot about our folks at home
27/04/1918
I wrote two letters yesterday that I had put off for a long time and have about three more that I would like to know were completed,
23/04/1918
It seems as tho I don't get around to writing enough to suit my own concience. but the truth of the matter is that I have to have some kind of a comfortable place to write in or else a warm day, today was ideal I call it but I felt awfully sleepy,
15/04/1918
I spent sunday night on a work party till 1, A,M. today I have had a good sleep.
13/04/1918
I am lying in a dug out with a good forty feet of earth over me, The ventilation is good and the D.O. warm enough so we are real comfortable.
30/03/1918
We are expecting a big Canadian mail any day now. It has come a few days late for a month or so now,
19/03/1918
I have a slight business letter to write tonight all tho I realize that you have more than one letter coming to you and by the way,
16/03/1918
I am at the Y. for a while. I watched a pretty interesting game of ball for a while just before I came up.
11/03/1918
I have my shoes off and am lying on my bunk. Stretton who sleeps beside me just come in with a tin of cocoa and gave me some it was surely good,
01/03/1918
I am sitting around the hut this P.M. and it is a little chilly to, but there is no frost so we won't kick at a lot of this.
27/02/1918
We are just sitting around after dinner on a warm cloudy day with spurts of sunshine at times, It is weather you would expect to get rain from it but it don't seem to come.
22/02/1918
I started down town right after supper, a motor bus passed me so I thot I will try to catch this and here was Pete Campbell in it so we had a good ride of about a mile he got off at the picture show and I came on down to the Y. I got some candy and sat down to write,
22/02/1918
I have a little surplus of cash on hand so am sending it to you, you can make use of it before you get your next crop and I have no use for it here in fact I don't want to carry it around with me, it is only a nuisance.
18/02/1918
I received two boxes from you one from Laurie B. one from Annie one Kate, Otto, so I am well fixed for parcels for two months that makes seven in a week, about 19 in the last two months.
15/02/1918
It is just 11 A.M. I shaved and cleaned up this a.m. so that will do me for a few days again, we don't shave every day in the front line even the weather and conditions are good. but I have washed each day this trip,
10/02/1918
I am in France again This is a windy and misty Sunday but not cold at all.
08/02/1918
I did not get to France today but will be off in the a.m. at 6.15, I spent the day in the Victoria and Albert museum and out at the zoo we had a real good time most interesting.
07/02/1918
I am back in old London again. And will not go back to France until a day late, I don't care, they may not say any thing about it,
06/02/1918
I stopped of here about 8 P.M. last night just to spend the day in a new place and now at 2 P.M. I am starting on to London for my last day and then France the next stop.
02/02/1918
It is a treat to have such a dandy bed and christian home to call home again for a while.
02/02/1918
I received a parcel some weeks ago that I surely enjoyed. The suspenders, socks, and etc. were fine, All so the eats we all enjoyed. Thank you all for your thoughtfullness and kindness to us boys over here.
31/01/1918
Mrs Deason and I were down along the beach today where the sea comes in, in big roles that I know you would like to see, then other places it hits the rocks and jumps a good number of feet into the air and sprinkles you with mist a cupple of hundred feet up the rocks
29/01/1918
It is 11 P.M. but I want to write you a few words before I go to bed, I was at a Social evening tonight at the Guild Club with Lilly
27/01/1918
I have done nothing today but walk around and see what Sunday in the big city was like, I don't like it either
26/01/1918
My first day in Blighty has been quite a busy one, And it has been real enjoyable it is nice to feel that you can stay up late or role in or do any thing you like,