The Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd. Managers and Agents for Canadian Pacific Railway Ocean Steamship Lines, The Allan Line Steamship Company Limited RMS [unclear] October 5 1917. Dearest Mother:-

    Here  we are about half way across the Atlantic - and no submarines yet. I am afraid you will be expecting my cable about this time; but it will be about four days yet before this letter can start back to you and in the meantime I will have cabled immediately on my arrival so you will hear of my arrival long before this letter reaches you.
    There are [illegible] this convoy, under the sheltering wing of a good old [illegible], and we are steaming slowly along at almost ten knots an hour. When we get

BC Archives 93-6553 Drewry Family Box 4 Selected correspondence, 1917 - 1919.