TCD MS 11274/21 folio 1 recto
Saturday 11th Mar[ch]: 1916
My dearest M. I got your nice letter yesterday in a green envelope. It was a very nice letter & amusing. I am sorry you have had such a gap in my letters but not altogether my fault I hope, still I seem to remember rather a bad period of letter writing just then. I got the ham OK thank you awfully much. It had lots of fat in it this time. I think myself it was not quite enough cooked but everybody says that is rubbish & so I may be wrong. I sometimes fry it when it is excellent. I have but little news of my commission save that about five days ago, I am informed by a chap in the office that these papers appeared here and were immediately sent off again elsewhere. This much I believe to be true. I naturally tried to find out from this chap why they had come & where they went. He was very cloudy about it and said it was to find out whether it was for RFA or RGA. I said I hardly thought it could be this & he said Oh No it was to know whether you were to train in England or here. So I have decided that he knows nothing about it & Im sorry there was’nt a “live” man, then I could have perhaps given you a little news. Perhaps not. For indeed they change their arrangements like the weather and no one man at one end of a string knows what is going on at the other end. A friend of James has been sent to England to train for RGA he took about 2 months from the time of sending in