Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

[1 January [1916]] Here is a little souvenir of the Party last night a howling success*. I think this sketch that Gray did is very good we kept it on till 2 30 am all merry but no one up-roarious which was good. We invited as a guest our artificer an old soldier. He was very happy & made 5 speeches explaining all of them that he *refers to MS 11274/17