Dearest Mother & Father I received two of your letters last night & two to-day and one from {Bessii] Flemming as I have been rather lucky. Tommie Carew came down Thurs-eve to see Chuck, he is on leave from France. We tried our best to entertain him but Langford is such a dull place that I am afraid he did not enjoy it very much. Tommie is looking very poorly indeed we are going to try to get him in hospital if we can succeed in getting {Gave} before he goes back. I had a note from Vernon saying that they had arrived in Willey all right and so I will go up to see