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a business way – to have schemed for promotion before leaving Canada and all the rest of it. — by the way you owe me a bit on the donation [?] of the War — I have forgotten what it is though. Tom Hale is over here now — a Major in the Forrestry Corps. — he has charge of a sector [?] down in the French Territory — I am expecting him to blow in every day in his Ford. — He was right behind me for awhile. Pat Toldie Smith, I curse [?] living together just before the Vimy show and Tom was right behind us. He has not changed a particle. Goldie is looking after Light Railways. Smith after forward rockets [?] and I am Water Supply — We are all back at Corps. now and very comfortable. —One gets very much ved up at times — My own work is

BC Archives, MS-1901, Box 1, File 16, RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873–1964. Victoria; librarian. Selected letter from Lieutenant Ormond Montgomery Stitt, 1917.