Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 292
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[Page 292]
18.3.18
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My dear May & all
Your parcel arrivedĀ today your letter of the 15th January two days ago, mine goodness you are a good old sport & I am dead keen to settle down on the book. A parcel arrived from my people at the same time dated 19th December containing a plum pudding & a tin of dark Havelock. I may smoke a lot but my tastes are a long way off getting used to dark Havelock, still I am able to mix it with lighter stuff. You may laugh at my letters for bacca but they've produced the required article my folks are sending it in ship loads, giving me enough to store away for a good long rainy day. Im looking forward to meeting your brother again so that I may be able to give him some, he is up the lines now or rather he is about 6 miles behind the front line. I know the spot well. As you remark it would be far too quiet a place for me, I like being in the thick of things, there isn't a bit of fun in looking on - of course I'm not a signaller you see.
Being "King of the Donks" I will