[?], as I had my own, that I sent you, returned yesterday with the [?] taken out. Some did silly [?]. I [?] by again as [?] [?] me [?]. Do you remember a [?] Harker, in the King's Royal Rifles, he said he knew you quite well in Vancouver, used to dance with you. He is a [?] of mine too. By the way I am sorry to say that neither Jones or his wife are in a position to say that they are my friends. They both did a great wrong to one of my [?]. I do not want to wash [?] [?], but you may show them this letter if you like. I am very glad that they did not have to erect a tombstone over you, are the virtues so hard to find? [?] [?] a [?] hacking cough from cigarettes, but I would rather keep it than give them up as [?]. You don't seem to have much luck in your trips away from home, but I [?] you are having a pretty good time for all that. I think that you are [?] wrong in your [?] of my [?] and [?] wrong about [?], I have [?] an [?] [?] much, the [?] [?] of [?] June, [?], I [?] you [?] as being about h5, am I right? Whatever it is, a girl who can write such delightful letters [?] [?] delightful and charming as I know you are, good [?]

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1916.