P.S. My old trunk is about all in & I need a new one. Started out to buy one yesterday afternoon, but! Nothing worth having for less than £5/10/0 and nothing at all under £3/10/0! Who said thinks are cheap in England?

STRAND PALACE HOTEL, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 2.

TELEGRAMS: "LUXURY, HAND, LONDON." CODE: WESTERN UNION.

THE STRAND HOTEL LIMITED, PROPRIETORS OF STRAND PALACE HOTEL, REGENT PALACE HOTEL.

May 9, 1919.

Dearest Mother:–

At last I've got my leave as you will see. I came up here yesterday and went down to Winchester this morning on the 9.35 from Waterloo. It didn't take me long to tell them what I wanted, for I've been wanting it so long now that there was no holding me. Not that I get at all heated, but just stated cold facts as to how long I had been waiting and how hundreds who hadn't

BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, DREWRY FAMILY, Selected correspondence, 1917 – 1919.