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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to be nimble to keep pace and in order to be ready for developments I have taken a good rest and am now very fit again. This is dreamland and your wonderful letter which was quite unexpected - indeed I thought I had been forgotten adds to the interest and fits in admirably with my mood and all about me. I had some kind of premonition I was to hear from you. I am of the Celtic race and telepathy or some such thing brought you in my mind today when out fishing. Tarpon fishing is exciting only when a tarpon is on the hook. When he is not then a guide looks after everything and you can smoke or read or dream until the eventful moment comes and then all is in a whirl and a jump until you land or lose him. Late day I recalled it was the anniversary of leaving Vancouver and of your birthday and of your charm and cleverness and your wonderful letters. I came back and immediately identified a tarpon scale to send you. That is the Florida fashion and when in Rome etc. It should have been sent ten days ago but I was somewhere in a railway train. I had hardly written on the scale when the boy brought my mail and your letter and so I hasten to chat with you. I have just written to George Graham to remind him of the 30th. If my dear child your in an Adamless Eden this is an Eveless one. There are some of your sex there but no one even with our wonderful now that would be temptius. I wonder which is
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 6 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1918