France 7-10-17

Dear Fred.

Havent heard from you for a long time but suppose it is my own fault for if I remember correctly I owe you one.

How are Claire and the children- The latter will be quite grown up - I was surprised at the last snap you sent me.

Notice by today's paper that Brewster is on his way East to confer with Sir Robert and that the chances are that Sir Wilfred will resign - That the Nationalists may have the balance of power & etc - what is the situation anyhow? Seems to an outsider that the Situation is rather obscure -

Well this damned war goes on doesn't it? It would have paid one at the start to have gone into the thing in

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 16 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letter from Lieutenant Ormond Montgomery Stitt, 1917.