TCD MS 11274/18 folio 1 recto
9 Jan[uary] 1916
My dearest Mary, I am beginning another letter now, perhaps it will arrive first of the two as supply of Green Envelopes is very short. I have just got your nice parcel. Thank you very much, dear for it. The honey is very good. It is the only thing except the biscuits I have eaten as yet. They too are very good. I think tho’ that I always tell you that I get your parcels also they are not at all few & very good more & better than I deserve. Never surely did soldiers live in such luxury as we do. I got a book on AE by Darrel Figgis from home the other day. I didn’t awfully much care for it except for a grand attack quoted in it by AE against Rudyard Kipling occupying 3 pages or more. RK apparently had been throwing mud