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Dear Dodie:

Very many thanks for your 2nd letter. I am sorry that I have not written for so long, but I have been flopped out for some little time, but am quite alright again. It is a rotten job going sick with the temperature anything between 95 degrees or 100 degrees in the shade. When you are gasping with heat and have kicked all your [illegible] off, the winter comes along and tells you that you must keep warm. We do nothing but bathe all day now, having rigged up a diving board, an aerial railway as a chute. The aerial railway is great fun. You start off about 50 feet above the water and rush down and let go when you are about 10 feet above the water, you get a splendid splash. The beauty of it is that once you have started you cannot jump, as if you do you will have hurt yourself badly by coming up against a steel bulkhead. The chute is also amusing as you can never be sure if the chute will prefer to remain in it's proper place or come with you, it is comes with you, you have to keep under water until it is finished plunging about or you will get some smack on your head. The water is beautifully clear, you can see bottom in 25 fathoms, so you only have to remain well down and watch the plank. I have been to [illegible] and ran across some of the sisters of the 1st Canadian field hospital, the only ones that I must

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