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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New York City Office Candler Building At the Sign of the Silver Fish
Tarpon Inn Useppa Island Florida Hotel & Navigation Company Post Office Useppa Island, Florida
March 31st 1918
My Dear Miss Dode
Your letter has found me out down here about as far away as I could possibly be from Vancouver. It is a land of flowers, and lovely summertime, of fishing when you like it and dreams - a new world for us of the Northern climes. Just now the most wonderful of moons - fulfilling the words of the old song - softly falls the Southern moon. I have been here a week and intend to remain another and then move up north to Washington, Atlantic City, New York with a week in Ottawa to see how my old political associates are prospering before going back to Nova Scotia. I have had few months rest] and am in splendid shape quite got back to more than my old form and will be quite ready to play the game again as soon as the occasion is opportune. [illegible] them will be opportunities and [illegible] soon there is no doubt - the world is moving so very fast these days that one has
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 6 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1918.