EAG-16

18^th October, 1917

Private J.F. Eagleson,
110^th Field Ambulance,
B.E.F. FRANCE

Dear Eagleson,

I was very sorry to hear from your last letter that you had such a bad time of it with sickness. I am sure you are badly in need of a good long leave, which I hope you will get when we may have the chance of seeing you. I am addressing this to your old address as I suppose you will have rejoined it before now.

You will find that we have had a good many changes here since you were last among us. Miss Miller⁶⁸ has returned to the Library on duty, although she is not working full hours yet.

Fitzsimons and Brown are both still in France, but I had a letter from Brown this morning in which he tells me that he has now joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers, 9^th Battalion, and evidently prefers it to the cavalry. I had a letter card from McCausland the other day, written on a troop ship; he is somewhere in the East, Salonica way.

I just received Atkinson⁶⁹ 's resignation from Donegall Road last night, so there will be nobody left in Donegall Road except Mr. Moore⁷⁰ , that you know, and we are appointing girls now in the place of all the boys who leave us. Most of the other members of the staff that you knew are still with us and well, and those that I have been speaking to wish to be remembered to you.

I am glad to receive your post cards at intervals to let me know when you have not time to write. We have had trouble with Butler getting into civil employment in England and drawing his money here at the same time. The matter is now in the hands of the Town Solicitor, and I do not know what the result will be. The whole thing might have been avoided if he had kept us informed of his whereabouts, but he neglected to do so.

I hope that you are keeping quite fit and well again and have come safely through the recent big battles.

I remain,

Yours sincerely,

Acting-Chief Librarian

Pte. J.F. Eagleson
110^th Field Ambulance
FRANCE