I expect it was the flu made such a mess of me

TCD MS 11274/34 folio 1 recto

TCD MS 11274/34 folio 1 recto

[Friday 22nd 1916]

Evening has now arrived and we can get the Gramophone of the resourcefull Willey going. It plays Gilbert & Sullivan & ribald songs as well. I expect it was the flu made such a mess of me at Harve. Really & Truly I am perfectly well again now. I have not yet got LL. Georges Speech but I have a “mail” of yesterday quoting little bits of it. There was an excellent article on LL.G. in the new Statesman. It shewed that a good portion of the time generally supposed to be devoted by him to Getting on with the War is as a fact