time - also it gave more Vancouver news than I have had since I left that attractive town to strafe the Huns.

Wasn't it awfully hard luck about poor Ross Cotton? I liked that boy better than any of them out at the front. He had a splendid character and most loveable disposition. In war one has to get hardened to these things but Ross's death was a heavy blow for me.

Thanks to the care I have had my wounds are now all healed and the only

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4

GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton), Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1916.