TCD MS 11290/33 folio 2 recto
[c. May 1918] attack on the mill she didn’t know it and when I said it was by Zola she nearly had a fit.
I understand he said something nasty about Notre dame de Lourdres and is now anathema to all good catholics.
I told her it was absurd in 1918 and she thinks I’m a mad Anglais & ought to be humoured accordingly so she hasn’t got offended.
It has been very hot here lately but I have found that tuppence worth of cider and a book in the green depths of the forest is a most perfect way of forgetting all about gas lectures and other worries.
No letters from home lately but I’d like to know when you do write where the Stokes family are as I’ll go and see them if I can.
At present I hope for leave about the end of June or early