Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
Letters written to Deborah Florence (Leighton) Glassford of Vancouver by men serving overseas, including some cards, programs and memorabilia. Learn more.
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23rd Nov. 16 H.M. Submarine E XI
My dear Dodie:
I am back again after another spasm. You say in your letter that I have never said anything about your photograph that you sent me. My letter must have gone adrift, as I wrote and thanked you for it and said that I liked it very much. I also said at the same time that both my photographs had been returned to me, as the Censor took exception to it including the boat, absolute nonsense. I shall have to get another at Malin. In the meantime I am sending you a snapshot taken of me in my khaki rig; it is all I have except the others that won't go. You talk about marrying the first wealthy man of fairly decent appearance, in your last letter. I hope sincerely that you were only joking when you said that. I cannot imagine anything more terrible than doing a thing like that, it would be selling yourself to a man that you had no love for. For Heaven's sake think seriously before you contemplate anything like that: you could not possibly have any respect for yourself afterwards, and no one would have much for you. You may argue that many people have done it before, can you think of anyone that you have come across that you do not despise in your own heart. Please pull yourself together and try and face your troubles with a souter heart than that. I know that at times one gets most awful fits of depression and one feels inclined to do anything to get away from
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1916.