HOUSE OF COMMONS CANADA EDL 531 87b

June 1 1917

My Dear Mrs. Leighton

You will I fear think I am a laggard and poor correspondent but I have only to say that my intentions and desires are of the very best and I have more than once started to answer your last most interesting letter when the pressure of the political situation which has been very acute and quite the most absorbing I have seen in many years. I am at the end of the work and there is a sort of lull

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