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H. M. Submarine H.3. c/o G.P.O. London

Dear Dodie

I got your letter of 25 Aug today. The photographs have not turned up with it, but as you addressed the letter to the War Office, you may have done the same with the other. I wish that we were attached to the army, but I am sorry to that we are not.

I hope that you have got over the effects of the dinner party in which your were "odd one out", it must have been a rather novel occasion for you; but I have got accustomed to it now.

The first part of your letter made me feel an awful worm, I an so sorry that it made you feel sad, but I am afraid it must have conveyed a wrong impression to you. I wish that I could remember the actual wording of it.

At the time that I wrote, I had been given a new boat, the first of its class, and I expected a great deal of it. Unfortunately, its engines proved to be a failure. Naturally I felt very mouldy at not being able to take my chances with the remainder; at the same time I know that, if, I hand to take her over the other side, as I was told I shall, the chances of my ever getting back would be very small indeed.

BC Archives MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Correspondence inward, 1915.