Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 72
Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 72]
5.
auction, as there were only about fifty copies printed. They brought from 5/- to 25/- each. I did not get one as I was not financial. The paper is called The Lincoln Lyre. I will send you a copy later on if I can get one.
I tried to smoke the pipe again yesterday for the first since I came aboard and I had to give it best, worse than sea-sickness. I am at present very sore from sunburn, as we wear only shorts and singlet.
Did the second lot of proofs turn out any better. If I can afford to buy a camera in Cairo I will send you some photoes. We have called MacDonald Parra, the human talking machine. Parra is short for Parramatta & parrot.
Joe won a potato race yesterday & was rewarded with £1. So far the 11th of 4th have won most of the events in the sports which are being carried on for another week. Before we go into the