c/o * Metcalf
566 Aldermanbury
London E. C.
Tuesday July 25/16

Hello Ann

Your letters are all coming to me O.K. I think the last one numbered "one" A very good start. Some take about twenty days to get here.

Well I am getting on all right and it will only be a short time before I go to squadron. I hope to go on sea planes but am not sure what they will do with me. I wish I could tell you different little things about this country & the people, Now I am not the only one - all the other Canadians, Australians etc are the same way. Honest we could be shot for what we think and know to be true. Wait until the Canadians find out the truth about things & look out for a squall.

I was down at the Adm. the other day to see about some refunds for expenses over & the guards they have there would make a cow laugh. Honest, they have some there that have been there since the stairs were painted hundreds of year ago & they have forgotten what they were put there for, but they are still on duty.

I can't explain things very well as they might get this letter &
…but I have been very lucky so far (I am touching wood) I never saw...

It would take too long to tell you why but one thing I can thank the Curtiss School & Victor Carlstrom for the trouble he took at Newport News. It certainly has helped me very very much.

I don't even dare tell Eloise about the crashes over here, but it's nearly always the pilots mistake. They rush them through too fast the class of men & boys are awful. I saw a Canadian Batt go by the other day in London. They were certainly grand & in fine shape. There are quite a few Austrailians here too, a very fine class of men.

I suppose I should not talk this way but you get so fed up with the place that it's the only way we can get it out of our system. If you tell them they can't see the joke.

Well sister, Chingford shouldn't be on the map but it's about twenty miles out of the City of London in a marsh. I get a day off once every two weeks.

With lots of love, many thanks for the papers, they are fine

Pete.