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I had a letter from Adele the other day about her marriage. Of course you didn't know her at all so you can't understand my feelings for her. Also had a long letter from another person you didn't understand at all - Parrott. He is in the U.S. Cavalry and hopes to have a bit of fun soon. I remember away back in the old days of the very beginning of the war Phil Brooks had a great scheme for training a mountain battery in the hills behind North Vancouver though how he would introduce it into trench warfare I don't quite know. I saw dear old Humble a little while ago at Hastings: I stayed at headquarters the Queens Hotel and we had quite an amusing evening amongst others there being Dr. and Col. Robertson from from Victoria and his wife Mrs. Pooleys sister. At Seaford I saw several old friends none of whom would you know I think except Gwynn. Why can't you persuade that slacker Philips to do something? I was at an at home the other Sunday and saw fat old Watts and his fat old wife, he looking rather well in highland

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 5 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1917.