It is shaped like a Bomb

TCD MS 11274/25 folio 1 recto

TCD MS 11274/25 folio 1 recto

Tuesday 21st March 1916

My dearest M. I have just got a parcel from you. I havent opened it yet it is shaped like a Bomb but I dont suppose it is that I wrote to Evans last night and got it through by our DR service so he has it by now and I may get an answer tonight. If I had posted it in the ordinary way it would have taken about a week. I gave him an account of the steps my papers had taken and suggested to him to try and find out from the Colonel he is supposed know what stage they are at. I was told to day that the proper application form was now a modified brown form not the blue one I employed so perhaps they are puzzled by that. The Brown form I think is new since my application J says it is the very latest thing in Army Forms. As a matter of fact I do not think I am justified in supposing that there has been already undue delay but Id like to know if the papers are in this country or England. There isnt a piece of news at all except that