We are living in more or less comfort now after tent life in an ever raging sand blizzard! Florence seems to be enjoying her little holiday at Sandgate by the sea, the change will be very good for her, & will give her renewed energy before she takes up nursing again. I witnessed rather an exciting scene from the coast here a few days ago, a large liner was torpedoed a few miles out of Seaford. I had a very good view of her sinking, it made one feel rather rotten though to see it going under, especially

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.