TCD MS 10247/1/833 folio 3 recto
long so I will stop – how I wish a bit of leave would roll along so that I might have a sight of everyone again for a bit, anyway cheer up! it might work round before the summer’s out yet – one never can tell, or maybe better still the old Hun’ll have to give a permanent leave – so’s we’ll all be home again – & I don’t imagine the old Hun is altogether happy – let him
Don’t return – A.K.W