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My Dear Dodie

It is good to hear from you again, though you do not seem to be have a very exciting time. You seem to have go muddled up with a lot of psalm singer, I hope that they have not converted you. I cannot imagine Dodie religiously delivering tracts etc. among her friends in Vancouver. The fishing might have compensated for it a bit. Was it a proper fishing expedition or a pic-nic like the last?

I am awfully sorry to hear about your father, I thought that he might have recovered a bit over the Exhibition. Everyone seems to be in a fairly bad way just know, goodness knows what it will be like after the war, England will most certainly not worth living in. I think that you will have to take to nursing and come out here. There are a good many Canadian sisters here and they seem to have a pretty good time, always trotting about with officers.

We are at Malta for some time now which is

BC Archives MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Correspondence inward, 1915.