| Description | Recovering from a severe attack of influenza. Chose to convalesce ashore rather than on the Royal Albert as he wished to share dangers with brother officers. Better off now he is in a house with a fire. The men now better clothed & the worst months of winter over. Expresses annoyance over a letter in the Times on "The abandonment of the trenches by the sentries of the 7th Fusiliers" to which the Colonel has replied. Correspondent said "we were under 7 men fit for duty. His box has at long last arrived." Such a mess in the bottom of the box you cannot imagine. The pair of Wellington boots with their thin soles & pointed toes did make me laugh when I pulled them out of the box. Brown paper would be of as much use in the Crimea mud." |