Somewhere in Siberia,
Dec. 7th, 1918.

Dear Martha:

The mail arrived two days ago bringing for me 34 letters and card, 5 papers and 1 box. Not bad for a start is it? Your letter dated Oct. 10th. was one of them. Surely there should have been more than one from you. But you never did write letters often to me. However we will let bygones be bygones if you commence to write me more often. Had two letters from home, one from Emma, Lillie Smith, Emerson dated Sept. 9th, and letters from Thorold, Clairville, Toronto, Alliston, one from Eliza Bennett, one from Annie Patterson. It sure was a job reading them all, but a greater job answering them all. One or two of the letters brought me rather sad news of deaths of some of my friends from the Flu. You have heard me speak of a Mabel Kitchener at Clairville. She now had passed away as a result of that dreadful disease, as also one officer, one sergeant and one private, who died at Niagara Camp. The boys here from Niagara Camp had a letter of condolence type - written to the Sergeants wife, and all our signatures put to it. Am sure it ought to be some consolation to her, that out here in far away Siberia, "Quarters" Thomspson had mourners.

Well, Martha, I had a Nov. 8th issue of the Globe sent me by Margaret Robinson in Toronto, describing the feeling and doing of the people of Toronto when the news was made known that the armistice was signed. Though the war is over in Europe, there remains that vast country, Russia, to be settled yet. However, that will not take long as Allied troops are rushing into Russia from all sides. The Allies are in Southern Russian on The Baltic Sea, in Warsaw, Archangel and Petrograd and also in the far eastern part of Siberia. The Bolsheviks will now commence to make them-selves scarce by getting out of the country. I sure would like to go right across Siberia, and down to either Odessa or Sebastapol, and through the Dardanelles. I have a craving desire to see as many foreign countries as I possibly can. It is quite possible we may go

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