the [?], what a nasty mess and where does your Clarence come off in all this? I hear Rossie has got 3 months extension lucky devil, I wish I was with him. There is [?] little news for me to give you. Jim [Fell?] is in England but not very fit. He is now at [C-?-borough]. Francis was back for 2 weeks but is now in France and was in good [?] when over here. Wee John Jakes has got 6 months sick leave to go

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 5 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton) Correspondence inward, 1917