I remember well last Christmas day

TCD MS 11274/36 folio 1 verso

TCD MS 11274/36 folio 1 verso

[24 December 1916]

on which nobody fired one shot where we were but I dont think tomorrow will be the like, at least they have been very irritable all day today and there has been an absence of any Christmas Spirit amongst the great nations I have been doing a fair amount of digging myself today it is good exercise Look here, my dearie, there is a thing that would be useful to me and that is a pair of ‘slippery’ both boots I mean indoor boots of some kind. Something a little more substantial