explain my presence in the above hosp. which really is one of the greatest jokes in modern times.

On Monday night I went to bed at the usual time and awoke at some unearthly hour of the a.m with the most awful pain in my tummy and as I believe I had a temperature the Doc sent me here in an ambulance and by the time I got here I was quite better

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 3 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters, cards and a photograph from Eustace Bidlake, 1917 - 1918.