5 I had a letter from Adele the other day about her marriage. Of course you didn't know her at all so you can't understand my feelings for her. Also had a long letter from another person you didn't understand at all - [Pa-?]. He is in the U.S. Cavalry and hopes to have a bit of fun soon. I remember away back in the old days of the very beginning of the war Phil Brooks had a great scheme for training a mountain battery in the hills behind North Vancouver though how he would introduce it into trench warfare I don't quite know. I saw dear old [Hamble?] a little while ago at Hastings: I stayed at headquarters the Queens Hotel and we had quite an amusing evening amongst others there being Dr. and Col. [Robertson?] from from Victoria and his wife Mrs. [Pooleys?] sister. At [Seaford?] I saw several old friends none of whom would you know I think except Gwynn. Why can't you persuade that slacker Philips to do something? I was at an at home the other Sunday and saw fat old Watts and his fat old wife, he looking rather well in highland

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 5 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton) Correspondence inward, 1917