Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 46
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Did I tell you the Adjutant here, my boss, was Playfair not Jack t'other one. He's such a nice chap & so decent to me.
Field
3rd September
Dear Mrs. John,
I think I wrote to you a day or so ago so I won't have anything fresh to tell you. I haven't any fresh letters form you & as I told you I had three at once (that was three precious Sundays labour of labour love, "Wilkie" !!!) This is ditto Wilkie! Something in the French air, I fear me Madame.
Well I'm settling down but I wish you could send me by wireless some "Mortein" or Keatings. I haven't so much that I can afford to lose any of flesh. I forget when I had a real good decent bath last. I was hoping for one today, we were to move & I had my mental vision on a wayside pond & an al