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the side of the Forth and saw a great part of the Grand Fleet It was a wonderful sight to see so many ships, ready at a moments notice to put out to sea. Daisy has a very comfortable house & a fine big garden, overlooking the Forth. She can watch the movements of the Fleet. We had a good view of the ship that Spicer is on from her garden. Daisy was in very good form & seemed v. glad to see me again. Well after I left Daisy's I beat it back to London were I have been ever since, I found word waiting for me that I need not report until my leave was up. had I known this when I was up in Edin I might not have

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.