World War I Collection

always on the ground or at least on the land and you generally have some place to go to. Don't think that this life is anything remarkable – its not. And duty such as I have estranges one from the world to which one belongs.

I was awfully pleased to hear that you had at last met Abigail Dowden. I think that she is as you say "class" and then some. She is also very accomplished in every way and I am awfully sorry that I have lost her. She is probably married now – she wrote me that she had decided to do so and the date was last month. So you see there is another disadvantage to the Navy – you never remain in one place, long