2110-2-13-22

G.H.Q N. France

May: 16: 15

My dearest little Susie

I was glad to get a letter from you last night. I hope my epistles are arriving regularly. I had a letter from Sandy Gillon in great form, for he thinks he is going out to the front in a month. Yesterday I had a quieter day. I wrote most of the morning & spent the rest of the day seeing heads of departments - R.A.M.C., Transport, Railways etc. - very efficient people who explained very interestingly the working of their own show. [ST: Major General] Joey Davies [Sir Francis John Davies] has asked me to stay with him & the 8th Corps & I must go over as soon as the fighting there finishes. Yesterday was a pretty quiet day on our front, only shelling, but

something is blowing up in the south.

The weather is not much to boast of - cold & raw & inclined to be gloomy, - more like March than May. Mother says that they have snow in Scotland. Out at this station it is very peaceful. The bell is tolling for sung mass & you might think war 100 years away. We collected Alfred Gathorne-Hardy from the Cameronians near-by & had him to dinner last night

Poor Hugh Lane. He must have been splendid. [ST: Sir Hugh Lane went down on the Lusitania art collector & a great friend of my mother's]

Much love to all

Yours affectionately

John