26.5.17

Dear Lindley

In my letter to Nell yesterday I mentioned that I had come across Lt Edwin McGregor once known as Alastair Frobisher. Today he called for me in his motor car + took me for a time to call on another Bn where he has a brother-in-law, a Major Thompson a K.C. of Toronto (Thompson + Nellis). The Bn was a place wh interested me very much Zouave Valley although there was not a blade or a leaf of green round the camp.

Major Thompson + the O.C. Colonel Chadwick were both the right sort. McGregor then brought