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[Page 82]

France    
14/3/17

My dearest Mater

Just now I am not going to attempt to write you a decent letter.  I am merely going to scribble a line or two to thank you for your note of 22nd Jan which I received last night together with some photos:- enlargements of two groups taken early in the Peninsular affair, [Gallipoli] two pictures of Syd & one of Possum.  For all of these I am very grateful.  But Mater dear the mounts are just a trifle too big.  Shipping about as we are continually, the photos are liable to become badly knocked about if they are any larger than say, a writing tablet.  But I shall try and look after them.  I was rather tickled with the calendars between which the photos were enclosed.  You surely arent of the opinion that we are living in a house where we can hang these things, are you.  I see they act as a matchbox holder & a striker for matches too.  Hardly necessary here.  If I

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