R.N. Air Station
Chingford, N.E.
Friday noon, July 7th

Dear Ann

Your letter rec'd this am, also papers very often. Thanks very much. I always liked the N.Y. papers. They are such good reading.

Must give you the address c/o C.O. Metcalf, 56-7 Aldermanbury St. London E.C. It makes it much simpler for me as he forwards three in a large green envelope. I can at once pick it out from the other mail. They have a very poor system of looking after the mail & half the fellows never get it. Yours of the 19th to hand.

I think the Loundes Co. offer all O.K. The stock as you say may be worth more later on but they could do as they like with the profits the best thing we could do is to get out.

I don't think this summer will see the end of the war, there never will be a big drive as people talk about. If there is, the losses will be in the hundred thousands. It will have to come from the inside of Germany. I write Eloise as often as I can. She has such a hard time coming on. I wish you were with her. She talks of going to Toronto. I think Chip would be a fine spot this time of year, the old street is so lonely in the summer months. See if you can't get her over there. I don't like the idea of renting the house at Chip. The rent would be so small and so much trouble connected with it, and being an old house it would just fall to pieces. Far better to just close it up. there is no object to selling, I will take it over if Jessie wants the money so bad. I am sending you a snap taken when I was at Crystal Palace of some of the officers.

I am getting lots of flying now & getting on fine, but the machines they let us fly are awful. They have a new machine, three planes, called the sopwith that is very fast & will be King of the Air before the summer is over. It has been at the station quite often. It's a wonder you will hear reports of it before long.

I can't tell very much Ann as they may be censored any time. So don't want to be stopped.

With best regards, "Pete".