Dear Mrs. Blais

Will you please forgive me for delaying a few days to write the letter which should normally have followed my cablogramme 27th November.

When we heard that the Colonel was ill in Bramshot Military Hospital, none of use here took the matter very seriously, well knowing that he was never really sick.  [...]

15 Can. Gen Hospital
In the field
29 Nov. 40

My dear Lauretta;

Well momy this is the first time since Nov. 20 that I have had a pen or pencil in hand, and I am still feeling pretty shaky.  I sat in bed to-day for a few hours to rest my back [...]

November 29, 1940

Mrs. Edmund Blais
Far Rockaway, N.Y.

Dear Mrs. Blais

Your husband has suggested that I write you, and I am only too pleased to act on his suggestion as word of his present condition and progress will doubtless be much appreciated by you.  As an introduction of [...]

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Le 20 Nov. 40

Dearest Ma;

Yours of Oct 24th just reached here, quite slow I must say, as I received one of yours dated Oct. 27 a few days ago (Reason, right address).  I read your long letter twice, as you must be a mind reader (re air raid) as while I [...]