Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 103

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I hope you can read my letters.

Fancy your having more rain, things must be good at Tog. Arthur said Telleraga was better too, so I'm hoping it will be a profitable season for the Boss. Fancy David Petre being back, was he wounded or sick. Of course I giggled over the Carrathool sale, I'd like to have been there.

Fancy the river being so huge for so long. Just my luck but I suppose if I'd been at home I'd have groused like one thing.

Are Peter & Miss Hilda married yet. I haven't had any news of Mrs. McLean lately, I hope she is getting on all right.

I'm pretty disappointed these days, I was hoping to go on leave to England this month but they've cut it down so I can't, not for two or three months. So now it can wait till May I think when the weather is decent & things generally are a bit more settled.

I saw Jock Ellis's photo in the Pastoral Review but it wasn't at all a good one.

Well I must do a flit, do forgive me if my letters are short & scrappy & uninteresting but really there is so little to write about these days, nothing exciting at all. I shall have a look at Driver Rowe of the unit you mention as soon as possible.

The snow has all gone, all mud & muck now & a cold raw wind. I have a big round today so must flee. Love to Mac, Grahame & the Boss & my very best to you, my fairy-godmother, ma marraine. Hope you are well & happy. Don't fret too much over things, I have some quite startling theories to expound to you when I get back.