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to be nimble to keep pace and in order to be ready for developments. I have taken a good rest and am now very fit again. This is dreamland and your wonderful letter which was quite unexpected - indeed I thought I thought I had been forgotten adds to the interest and fits in admirably with my mood and all about me. I had some kind of premonition I was to hear from you. I am of the Celtic race and telepathy or some such thing brought you in my mind today when out fishing. Tarpon fishing is exciting only when a tarpon is on the hook. When he is not then a guide looks after everything and you can smoke or read or dream until the eventful moment comes and then all is in a whirl and a jump until you land or lose him. As today I recalled it was the anniversary of leaving Vancouver and of your birthday and of your charm and cleverness and your wonderful letters. I came back and immediately identified a tarpon scale to send you. Makes the Florida fashion and when in Rome etc. It should have been sent ten days ago but I was somewhere in a railway train. I had hardly written on the scale when the boy and your letter and so I hasten to chat with you. I have just written to Ginger Graham to remind him of the 30th. If my dear child you are [NOTE: LAST FOUR LINES REMAIN TO BE TRANSCRIBED]

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 6 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1918.