World War I Collection

never have the chance to be one again -- The particularly nice feature of your letter was the detail -- and that is everything. I hope that now you have been billeted for awhile -- as you certainly deserve a rest and a promotion to Colonel at least for all that good work.

Everyone here -- has been fighting this awful epedemic [epidemic] of Influenza -- and so many people are ill with it -- while some have died here. Mrs. Townsend and Jean are both very ill -and Leslie Brown is just getting over it -- Poor Ruth Gith died of it -- also Mort Goggin and one of the numerous Bruzzones - Dr. A.S. Kelly - died too and aside from being a terrible loss to the profession -- he will be greatly missed by his friends. He was Eleanor and Edgar's doctor -- and was just splendid.

The Motor Corps which has just recently been organized is doing very strenuous work --