Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 18
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[Page 18]
Somewhere in Belgium this time.
16 September
Dear Mrs. Jack,
I only wish I could write to you when I felt like it but somehow or other I never can, always something important to be doing or to be done, when we're in I'm going like made & when we're out I'm still going, clearing & squaring up things. Consequently the only time I get to myself & my pleasures is very late at night and say what you like without whisky or champagne I'm not at my best at night. light
Excuse mistakes & corrections but this is a rowdy old place. Gawd knows how many people all round & all yapping & the place has as many echoes as a cave. However perhaps it will get quieter later meantime I'll struggle along.
I got a letter from you tonight, No. 24 so I dunno where 22 & 23 have got to, I suppose they'll arrive later. I'm sorry you were peeved. One does get that way & Nerida although a dear soul doesn't vary her methods & at