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Mena Camp.
Cairo.
10.3.15.

My dear Mother,

It was quite a treat to receive two letters and three papers from you. It is terribly disappointing when a mail comes in,  to  stand round waiting, waiting for your name to be called out, but not to hear the welcome L. Corp Moore. More especially when you know there should be something. You remarked that Penn was sending me the "Mail" regularly, & he told me so in his own letter, yet not a single one has reached me.

I knew that Harry Sand's Mother had died. He came across the other day & told me. He is not long out of hospital where he went with some lung trouble. It was whilst in hospital he received the news of his mother's death.

Last Sunday I took a trip to Heliopolis. This is the European suburb of Cairo. The whole place resembles nothing more than a huge white City built in the desert. Some of the Palaces, and there are many are magnificent. Lord Kitchener had his residence here. The most imposing building is the Heliopolis Palace Hotel. It is of huge stone, and immense. Reckoned by many to be one of the

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