of the B.C. University, whose name may be familiar to you, is the supervisor for this area. I offered my services in connection with the classes and am now instructor for the shorthand class for this comp ([South?]) two nights a week.

we have a bunch of boys interested in all the classes and i enjoy my sessions very much. All I want is to be of service and when my time comes to go over to the Land of Somewhere I'll do the best I can to get there. For the present I am being held here on account of the class.

Sometime ago I ran into Eustace Bidlake in this Reserve. He is looking fine. I haven't seen him for two weeks now & am not sure whether he has been moved again or not. I am in touch with Cecil Lowe in France, who is now on the spot where "business is booming" and I'm sure his experiences are interesting. They have been in several [?] but safely protected thus far & we all hope soon to return to that [?] spot yonder overseas beneath the Western sky. I have run up against a number of old Victoria boys here and there and its nice to renew old acquaintances.

BC Archives, MS-1901
Box 1
File 11

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