He’d be just excellent under fire

TCD MS 11274/6 folio 2 verso

TCD MS 11274/6 folio 2 verso

[10 November 1915]

that you think I was rather belittling <either> your fathers sensibility or veracity I wasnt talking about him at all. As a matter of fact Im quite sure he’d be just excellent under fire and indeed its no small thing to be either. In this connection I always console myself for shortcomings with thinking of the story of the