and only enough crispness in the air to make exercise a pleasure. I have been playing football and basketball and feel none the worse for it.

We hear today that the Germans are making a big attack on a very long front but we are quite out of it here and have only the distant sound of guns to remind us of war. Your last letter, which I only received a few days ago, was full of love as ever. It would indeed be grand to walk into Pentrelew and see for myself whether you had any of you forgotten me.

BC Archives, MS-2879 Box 69 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Selected letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his mother, Sarah Crease, 1916-1918.