1 6/1/19 My dear Daddy Iwas delighted to get your letter of the
30th today. I hope you will have a good
shoot on the 8th & I will be thinking of you
all day and wishing I was there too. I am afraid
I was much too optimistic about leave in my
last letter as now I don't expect I will get it
before the end of the month at the earliest.
There were two others to go before me who had
been forgotten altogether so that will make
mine a fortnight later but that can't be
helped and so we must make the best of it. I wish I could bring Nellie over when I come
too as I want you to know her soon but
I am afraid it will be quite impossible this
time. You could not have her work at the
bank. I saw all about th Sinn Feiners in the
papers and I also see great articles in the
English papers about what they are threatening
to do. If there is a general strike on [??] 2 get home I suppose I will have to walk from
Dublin and wont we be able to telegraph to you
to come to meet me. I will get home somehow
anyway. I hope the Sinn Feiners have not
pinched my gun on its way. Where was it
coming from. If I do get leave shall I bring
a few cartridges from London if I can get them. Be sure and tell me that when you next
write. I spent today seeing Waterloo thoroughly
and [??] did everything. I saw just where
Wellington & Napoleon & all the other big wigs
slept and had breakfast and every all that
sort of thing. We came to the conclusion that it
was as well for those people that there were no
aeroplanes in those days. I could not find any
dud shells or anything like that for a souvenier No news & must shut up with very best
love to all. Your most affectionate Son
Willie