C.M.G. Depot Seaford SX

Sunday 21st July

My dear Mother

I was so bucked at getting your nice letter this am written on 21st June, the [D--illegible] also honored me with one dated 25th which was much appreciated too. Glad to know you are all going strong & I hope having a decent summer. The weather here has been pretty unpleasant lately. I don't whether this spot is always so windy in summertime, but if it is I can safely say it must be the windiest spot on God's Earth! It gets rather trying after a time & "gets one's goat" a bit, especially when one is living in a tent. Last week we had two very heavy thunderstorms some of the heaviest rains, "I've ever experienced"( to quote the old sayings). The tent that Oliphant and I are in leaked like a seive & unfortunately for me my bed happens to be under the leaky side! The rain came on when I was attending a class, & when I got back I was relieved to find my batman had saved the situation pretty well, by throwing over my trench coat & burberry over my blankets, otherwise I would have been out of luck, the coats must

BC Archives MS-2685 Box 17 File 3

OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917-1919.