Rideau Club Sept 22 1917

Dear Miss Dode

I am a my [?] person I fear in that I [shaved hair ?] delayed so long in answering your charming letter but my only excuse is the [contrivances ?] daily and nightly work at the [house ?] which happily at last came to an end yesterday and I am leaving for the East [Command ?] to get ready for the election which should be [over ?] I hope before the Xmas bells ring. Thems is just the possibility

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