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John Haworth Drewry Letters

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I arrived in London Saturday afternoon, settled myself at the R.A.C. and cabled you from there. Sunday I proceeded out to Richmond and spent a day on the Thames with a fellow called Chambers who was wounded a month or more ago and is on sick leave. The Thames is very pretty out there and I can quite understand why Englishmen rave about the boating on the Thames, for
 
I arrived in London Saturday afternoon, settled myself at the R.A.C. and cabled you from there. Sunday I proceeded out to Richmond and spent a day on the Thames with a fellow called Chambers who was wounded a month or more ago and is on sick leave. The Thames is very pretty out there and I can quite understand why Englishmen rave about the boating on the Thames, for
  
BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1918.
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BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected correspondence, 1917–1919.

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Hope he had a good season and lots of good fishing this time.

Have the hens turned out a real success? Do you know in France where every informer and villager keeps keeps countless hens and ducks, eggs are the equivalent of four cents each, and sometimes five or five and a half. Butter we pay forty cents a pound for and meat and vegetables are almost prohibitive in their prices. I know because I have done a certain of buying for our mess.

I arrived in London Saturday afternoon, settled myself at the R.A.C. and cabled you from there. Sunday I proceeded out to Richmond and spent a day on the Thames with a fellow called Chambers who was wounded a month or more ago and is on sick leave. The Thames is very pretty out there and I can quite understand why Englishmen rave about the boating on the Thames, for

BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected correspondence, 1917–1919.