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Adv^d. GHQ.

Oct: 17: 16

My own little darling

I hoped to get back last night, but they insisted on
keeping me till this morning in hospital. It has been a most interesting time
here & I greatly enjoyed it. I am perfectly well now, better than I
have been for weeks. I hope you haven't been worrying. It is an
experience I wouldn't have missed for a good deal, & I have been in
the best of good company - real plucky jolly chaps, some of them very
badly wounded. I had a great fight to keep from being sent to the base,
which would have been ridiculous.

I was very glad to get your letter yesterday. I enclose you
a cutting. I am very flattered at being compared to Sir Walter Scott.