FIT-21

Pte. J. Fitzsimons
41^st Casualty Clearing Station
B.E.F. France

Dear Fitzsimons,

I read your long letter with the account of your experiences with very great interest, as did also my people at home and Miss Miller¹⁷⁹ . You have been having a very busy time of it. You have been very fortunate yourself to escape when so many of the R.A.M.C men have been injured and so many hospitals bombed.

You will be glad to hear, or perhaps you will already know that Miss Miller has returned to the Library although she is not yet working the full hours, but she is managing to get around the place wonderfully well after her long illness¹⁸⁰ . The rest of the staff here are much as usual; there have not been any special changes of late. The men at the front, Eagleson, Brown and Roy, I believe, are still somewhere in France as also are Major Coulson and Captain Simpson, but not having heard from them for some weeks I don't know much about them.

McCausland is on his way to Salonica; I had a post card from him the other day posted in the South of Italy, so you see he is getting a little more variety than some of you boys.

I have no more news for you at present, but will be glad to hear from you whenever convenient, so, with best wishes from the staff and myself.

I remain,

Yours sincerely,

JBG
Acting-Chief Librarian