For [?] [?] beef & salads, jam custards & cake [?] [?]. The mess halls were decorated with [?] and our band [?]. [?] us at dinner with numerous selections. As is usual, the seniors - [?] & Sgt-Majors - waited on the men. We had an uproarious time. The Captain in charge of our [?] [?] [?] has invited me to tea, with several other helpers, & we had a fine time instead of at barracks. Christmas night in [?] was devoted to a concert and games, fully enjoyed by a full house. The 26th was also a free day for the boys - no parades at all. Then on the 29th I left for my six days leave & enjoyed it firstrate at he "[ould?] [home?]".

The second week in the new year our delayed Christmas mail came in and I am busy acknowledging all the nice things you people sent me.

I am enclosing a program of the Xmas week entertainment as the Y.M.C.A had & a prospectus of the Soldiers College for your perusal. Major Brock, formerly,

BC Archives, MS-1901
Box 1
File 11

RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian.
Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914-1917.