most kind of flowers. If we get any kind of compensation or pay from our owners for this unwilling stay here - I'll take a run across to Vancouver - but if we don't (& I don't think we will) I'm afraid it'll mean doing something soon afterwards, as I have run up very heavy accounts with grub clothes etc, of course the majority of it will have to wait a bit, but I would certainly like to repay the old Ma a bit of all she has sent me out during this time, which must run into something between four & five hundred pounds at least. Now Toby let me have a letter again some time during the summer old dear - this will reach you somewhere about your birthday I should think - isn't it just before or just after the 23rd - I sort of think its the 29th but I'm not quite sure anyhow if it is "Many happy returns". And I must clew up there's no more space. So will wish all good luck & my best love dear, From Your Maitland

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 6 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1918.