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them a copy if we can spare one --- which
we can't just now but intend to send for
more --

In haste dearest, to drop Les a line too.
And with our love & prayers. Your devoted Mother
R. Helen Bates

Give the kindest to any of the boys you
know --- or that we know --- also to Bill
George --- The war news keeps on being
excellent. The evacuation of Ostend is the
latest. Lovingly Mother.