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21. 3. 18.
My dear Mother,
Many thanks for your last letter, also for others from Father Cecily Glad & Olive, also for a bottle of milk punch which arrived whole in spite of prognostications to the contrary. I have been rather seedy for some little time & am at the moment taking a few days off back in the Transport Lines, while the Battalion is in the trenches. I did not intend to go up at all but I may have to go for a day or so. It is very pleasant back here as the weather is A1. I got the invitation to the wedding, but am quite unable to promise to be there. But congratulations to Guy on his new appointment. It sounds very good & I will come & live at his lodge yet. I suppose he was too smart for them at Elswick as a Government Official, so they have had to take steps to keep him under observation. He will probably be Managing Director in a couple of years.
Love to all
Jack.