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76, Portland Place,
London, W.

28th March, 1916.

John Edgar, Esq.,
The Turf Club,
CAIRO.

My dear John

I was very glad to hear from you to-day. Sandy Gillon
turned up last Friday and told me he had seen you for a few min-
utes. Egypt sounds very pleasant, and I am very glad that at last
you have got the kind of work you like. I am glad to hear that
your wife is enjoying living in Switzerland.

I doubt very much whether you will see me in Egypt for some
time, as, like a stormy petrel, I follow the chief war zone, and
the centre of gravity seems to be shifting rapidly from the Near
East. Verdun has been a magnificent fight, and the German attempt
has completely failed in every respect. It will hang up the big
Spring offensive a little, but that is all to the good. I should
have been out at Verdun, for the French asked me to go, but I am
so busy here I could not get away. I have been up with the Fleet
lately in the far Northern seas and also the Channel - a most in-
teresting experience.

Sandy is home on a week's leave. His Division is now in
France. As I always expected, he finds ordinary soldiering under
an O.C. he does not like, far more irksome than any trench work in
Gallipoli. I wish we coud get him in his proper niche.

Johnnie [Jameson] is a Major in the the 3rd Regiment of Scottish Horse