Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

[10 May 1917] near to his house I said How nice! and he said Oh No! Not at all nice anything but nice! It was rather amusing I thought. I bought myself a lovely watch it rings a bell any time you set it at like an alarm clock it will be a great pleasure to the small child if it is still extant by the time I see the small child. It is a great big watch. I thought it might better stand the noise than the little ones which always stop & go on again in a big bombardment. The hotel people at our seaside port were very kind. I showed the old woman your photograph. She said you were nice but very sad. It made her quite silent thinking of the sadness in your face. She had not been brought up in Ireland to know the Celtic Twilight maybe. Her son had won the Prix de Rome before the War and was composing and studying in Rome. Had written Operas “Jeanne d’Arc” and others. Name