1917 Bramshott Camp Feb 27th Mr F.J. Tregillius Barkerville B.C. Dear Fred. I received your kind letter with enclosed interesting notes for which I am truly thankful. It is the first I have heard from Barkerville for ever so long. Abe Stote has been very good in writing, but I have not heard from him quite a while. I also had a letter from Murphy to day and a long and interesting letter it was and one of the best written letters I ever read. I also has a letter from Olaf Osland. He has done well in Alaska and has been on a trip to Norway to see his People and - got married in New York. The letter was writen some time in October and has traveled far and wide, before I got it. He is very likely in Alaska again by this time. he will be surprised when he hears I am in the Army. I am sorry to see that Jim Thompson was rejected. Well Thompson is 57 years old, and it is about time he cuts our the rough stuff. I dont believe the climate would agree with him here, wet and cold, we have hardly seen the sun since I came here,- but the gardens were green till the midle of January, when cold weather set in, there Mercury went down as low as two below zero in parts of England. here I think the coldest we had would be about 10 above, maybe colder as we had no thermometer. I se Thompson has made some nunsstatement. when he says I came over us