Correspondence – Page 4

To Major General A. P. Wavell.

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Bovington

Dear Wavell

Soldiers stink, & I haven’t any other clothes
here.  Therefore a week-end rules itself out : but
if I can borrow my former motor-bike I’ll come over
on Sunday afternoon.  That way I avoid the necessity
of getting a pass.

There’s an “if” you see, in it : and a vagueness
of “when” ….. any time from 2.30 (I’ll be precisely
later for lunch, to be sure) to 4.30.

No, cancel that.  The poor old thing isn’t as
cared for as she used to be, & perhaps the lights won’t
work.  So I’ll nip over about 11 A.M., and talk the
question of the book & map over with you and hop off
again.

Yours

T.E.S.

Don’t reproach me if I don’t come.  Life is uncertain
here.