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[Transcriber's note: The writer of these letters, Major James Beverly Metcalfe, is a Doctor in the Army. There are letters from Egypt, France and England. He was awarded the Military Cross for his work in France. On 25 April 1918, he died of wounds received in France and is buried at Vignacourt.]
Wellington
22-6-15
My dear Mrs. Jack,
Surprised indeed – I should say I was when I got your letter, but I shant leave my reply quite as long as you did yours, the correspondence would be too attenuated & if things fell off in the corresponding line, as they generally do, they would average about 1½ each in 3 years or so which would be too strenuous. I mean the effort of remembering who wrote last – needless to say I was also delighted, "any crust to a starving dog" as they say in the Classics.
I'm quite happy to think that I am at least justified in championing CAV in your opinion, of course I had no doubt in my own mind at all, at all, we generally may dislike people I've found, when we don't know them or don't want to, in many it takes some sifting to get the wheat from the chaff, and though sometimes we may