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H.M. Submarine H.3. c/o g.P.O. London

18.3.16

My dear Dodie,

I sat down to write to you last night, but was so stuffy that I gave it up, as your letter of Feb. 5th arrived this morning it was a good thing I did. I do not admire the photograph in the newspaper writing it did not convey the slightest idea of what you are like. I am sure that you are much more attractive in your ordinary clothes that you wear every day. I hope that you are sending me a photograph that is not pantomimie. I have had another go at sending you mine and am going to send another when we come back again. I am sorry about the lace, but now that I know what you want I shall write and try and get some. I am afraid that "butterflies" are not *al[?] in Malta, but I will see what we can do. If you had sent me a design, I could have got some made.

I sincerely hope that you did not stay with the Jone's, as I do not like them. I am rather surprised about them not paying their bills, as she certainly had a fair amount of

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