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I shall be most interested in hearing the latest re the garden and especially about David and Dorothy. It will give me real pleasure to send David picture books and I won’t forget him when I ever get home.

Any information you may ever want be sure and write. I know how interested you are in the war.

We are allowed biaziers here (coke and charcoal and a little dry wood) and so can make tea—black tea—in our black dixeys is quite a luxury here. In Cowper’s fine words “With the cups that cheer but not inebriate, so let us welcome peaceful evening in (another neglected Post!).

With love to Jess, David & Dorothy and cheero to self.

Yours,

Pte. J. Gunn

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BC Archives MS-1901, Box 1, File 5, RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873–1964. Victoria; librarian. Letters and associated items from Private Jack A. Gunn, 1915–1916.