most opportunely, as I was just on my last pouch full of the first tin you sent, so you see you timed to a nicety! Well you must be feeling pretty bucked up with the war news these days, & I expect you walk back from the bulletins with quite jaunty step! It is really splendid the way things are going at the present moment & I think future prospects that they will continue so look very promising, if you ask me the Hun is going to catch it good & plenty from now on, though I don't mean to say that we re not to expect perhaps small reverses at times

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.