Item 01: Ralph Ingram Moore letters, 10 February 1907-15 March 1918 - Page 522
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France 29. 7 17
My dear Mother,
At last a letter from you. It is quite a long time since we had any Australian mail. It has been very irregular of late. One also came from Elsie, & a letter & parcel from Mollie, so I did very well.
We are in splendid billets just now. Last night I slept between sheets. It is the first time since leaving London. I was dogged tired too, when I got in, so I had a hot bath & rolled straight into bed. I can tell you it was a treat. The people here are much cleaner & more obliging.
In the last lot of billets we were in, Maj. Carter was staying with an old dame. One day she asked him to have a few pears off one of her trees. When leaving he received a bill for 10 fr. for pears. There was also a bill of 10 fr. for making use of the gateway. Fancy anyone having the hide to charge 10 fr. for walking in & out of a gateway. It is that sort of thing which makes the troops very wild. They say - and quite rightly too, - that they have come 12000 mls to fight for these people, to find themselves robbed right & left. The same sort of thing happens in England as both Jane & I have already told you.
I am forwarding your letter on to Jane. She