This, I fear is a most awfully egotistical letter but honestly when one is suddenly taken from trench life and filthy billets and put into a decent room and pampered and peted one is inclined to become an egotist.

I won't talk about the war, but it was tough about poor old Flemming &

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