Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
Letters written to Deborah Florence (Leighton) Glassford of Vancouver by men serving overseas, including some cards, programs and memorabilia. Learn more.
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June 29th. 1919
My dear Dodie,
I cannot conceal how much I was pleased on receiving your letter of May 27th; indeed I expected it already since a couple of weeks because I had had some news of you through Valabregue and therefore I knew you were not forgetting your French friends, but, as the people say: "Better one bird in the hand than two in the bush." However, I should like very much to get the second whom you tell me to be a very happy one, under the shape of your photo, for I am afraid that the one you are speaking of in your letter is lost without any hope for recovering. As regard to Valabregue, he is again in New-York on his own business that is to say no more on official duty for the French government: being so near, you may at the end receive some lines from him, but dont upon it, he is the most rotten hand I perhaps ever knew: if he could not have reached me by phone, I should have lost any touch with him as completely as if he had been wandering around the North Pole.
Yesterday, Peace was signed in Versailles: consequently, there was here a renewal of the frantic and merry manifestations of the armistice day and I could make a comparison with those in New-York last November; they were indeed as wild as the others: several of the guns which were decorating the Avenue des Champs Elysees have been brought to the Boulevards, along which, laden with about a dozen of soldiers, girls and boys American, English and French, they were hauled amid the crowd by a still greater number; thousands of kisses were exchanged and therefore I deplore I didnt meet you .... but I must put an end to that description which any way would prove to be pretty inadequate to the reality. However, these people are no more trusting in the wonderfull virtues of the treaty, they have been overtired by the slowness of the negotiations and disappointed by the insufficient reparations Germany
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 7 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1919.