A letter from Sir Wilfrid Bliss Spender (1876-1960) to his wife, Lady Lillian Spender, née Dean, (1880-1968). In this letter, Spender discusses Lillian's holiday arrangements and family issues. He mentions a meeting with an acquaintance, the continuing failure of the Gazette to announce his promotion, and his hope that his brother Rex will be promoted to captain. He suggests that his superior's alterations of Spender's dispatch was so poor that the correction required correction. He finishes the letter with details of his visit to the trenches, declaring that he will never again go with the same companion if he can help it; said companion officer violated Spender's 'first superstition' by claiming that any trench he had been in was never shelled, and also refused to crawl in a one-foot-deep trench, though in full view of the enemy.Sir Wilfrid Spender was a member of the British Army until 1913 when controversy surrounding his signature of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant resulted in his resignation. Spender was called up for military service in 1914 and from 1915 served in the 36th (Ulster) Division. Throughout the war, Spender wrote a collection of letters to his wife Lady Lillian Spender. The letters date mainly from 1915 to 1918, when Sir Wilfrid was serving in France. The letters concern politics, the Irish question, personal life, and Wilfrid's experience of the Great War.