very pleased [?] that your Father has got something good in view as anything good in Canada at the present time seems to be pretty hard to hear of. I was terribly sorry to hear about poor old Hudson, it was rotten bad luck, but just like those contemptable Huns. it is extrord.[?] in a way how Kitchener [?] has horse or has been forgotten. The great thing is, as you say, he has really finished his work & it can now be carried on by an ordinary man, but it is sad to think he has not been spared to see the final results of his hard work. I had a [?] shock in the [?] of Roso Cotton. Perhaps

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