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continue for too long. This is my fourth letter this month &
it will be posted tomorrow. It is midday - I intend to
go on writing to you until bedtime, with various breaks
to attend to necessary work etc . When I work hard
all day, I am a bit tired by the end of it when
the evening comes & so in an ideal & receptive
frame of mind for an attack of misery & melancholy.

I have been trying recently to work a little less hard & to
decentralise more onto other people. But new things are
always popping up & bits of extra work adding themselves &
I have not been too successful yet.

I told you I had written a pretty rude letter to a R.A.F.
Squadron leader & also reported him to the Area Commander.
Well, the result was solitary & immediate & very
satisfactory for me (I cannot tell you what it was all
about) - but this has meant much extra work.

You were saying in a letter that I am doing an
awful amount of changing officers & I am still
at it. That carsenty person who came to me on
special report had to be reported on by me
this week. I sent an adverse report, & said he
was ignorant, lazy & very unreliable: this is all
endorsed by Col. L. - & so the bloody man is practically
certain to lose his commission & be flung out of the
army. As an officer he has the right of appeal under
a section of the Army Act & he is taking advantage
of this. The basis of his appeal is firstly that he was
wronged by a misunderstanding in his other Coy - & that
when he came to me, I took a prejudiced view
of him. And secondly that in this Coy there is a very
much higher standard of discipline & training & so
he was always being checked in this Coy for