Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 303
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4. short open letter as well, each mail until I hear from you. Our mail has not been too good this end, these last few weeks, but suppose it is owing to our move. Mums last parcel has not turned up yet, nor yours with the puttees, but I feel sure they will turn up later on. Everyone is complaining as we are getting them in dribs, & drabs. Well, Nell, I have not had my trip to England yet, but am saving towards the event, & have now about twelve, or fifteen pounds in my credit book- to my credit. One thing if I do not get the opportunity to spend it there, we will have all the more to make a start on. Up to the present I have, apart from what I can draw here, about seventy pounds to draw from my deferred pay, & the allotment. If I can manage to save at this end also, which by the way is rather hard when ever we get back from the line resting. I should have a very fair nest egg, by the time I get back, for us to have a good time on. I have not heard from the Edinburgh folk lately but suppose, it is because of the same cause as the rest of the mail. I received a letter from Father last night dated 1st May, & he says in that, that you all expected us to be in England by then, well I evidently led you all astray by my letters, as we have been in touch with Fritz now for nearly three months, & still