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I am awfully sorry that Father has been ill and hope that he will be well when this arrives. It makes me sore when I think how hard you all have to work and so many of us in this country just putting in time. If they gathered up a few thousand of us and sent us home they would be doing more to help win the war.

I guess Bert was mighty glad to get Mames parcel if his rations are as short as ours but it wont last five minutes when his crowd gets around it. It was too cold to take the horses down swimming today so this afternoon so I got out of sight in a pile

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 10 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Price Ellison, 1917.