Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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much older, after he once told us in one of his letters that he felt 40, if he was a day! Of course he does look a little older but that's only natural & not to be wondered at besides, hang it we must all have aged somewhat in the last few years! I am quite convinced as other people have remarked that no finer looking Highlander has ever donned the kilt, he certainly is a fine looking specimen all right, & I think seems almost more massive than ever! He looks a trifle thinner in the face than he used to, probably malaria and the Hot climate out in East Africa may have reduced him a bit. He weighed himself the other day
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.