Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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hope you both celebrated the occasion in good form on a bottle or two of Californian! Everyone took the news very calmly where we were, & we celebrated it very quietly. We couldn't do much else as the supply of the necessary liquid was not on hand. I raised ½ bottle of grog (which I had for "medicinal" use only of course! I state for Mother's benefit as I can see that finger of hers pointing at me! Well when the ½ bottle was divided amongst six, I found I couldn't even get a "glow up"! I hope Sholto & Heb were able to do better than this! I wonder where old LMG is at present moment. I haven't heard from him since he came out, but Florence hears from him quite often I think. I had a letter from "the celebrated John" dated 11th in which he
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.