16 Brynhyfryd Terrace
Conway
North Wales
Oct. 25., '17.

My dear Lulu

You will be surprised to see my new address. I am with my sister at here home since I have got a ten days' leave. It came as something of a surprise but I was very glad indeed to get it. Of course I safe guarded it by sending word to Melvin - the man I told you about - to wire me if I could go by any boat. No word has come yet so I am enjoying myself.

But I am so sorry that you could not be with me here. The scenery is just superb & you would enjoy it immensely. I know no place which is so beautiful as north Wales. The towering mountains of rock almost covered with forests; the streams & torrents with loveliest waterfalls the ancient ruins, the splendid roads, the quaint people speaking Welsh, all combine to make it inexpressibly beautiful with its rocky shores & stormy seas.

Today I particularly wished you were with me. I took a motor bus from Conway, passing the old castle & out under the archway of its ruined walls, to a place called Llancurst about 10 miles away passing through several little villages with unpronounceable names & along the course of the river Conway. From there I walked to Bettws-y-Coed in the very heart of the mountains. Then I had tea at a house where a Welshwoman told me that her son was in France as a sniper, a most dangerous job - & onto Swallow Falls, the finest sight I believe I have ever seen. Of course I haven't seen Niagara. I returned the same way. If we could only see these things together! Be maybe we shall, what do you say?

The pc's I got at Llandudno; the colored ones I think very fine indeed, & was told they were actual photos - like the rest - & then each hand painted afterwards by the publisher's daughter. Whether that is true or not I like them & hope you will.

I have had no letters from you for nearly two weeks, & what is bothering me is that in a letter I got from my father at Liverpool the day I left, he said that he had forwarded two letters he had received for me by the same mail, & I did not get them. I hope they are not lost for I am hoping that at least one is from you, dear Lulu. But when one is moving about so much suppose it is natural that they may be delayed.

Tomorrow - if no wire comes - I intend to go to the Liverpool to see for myself about the boat, & if there is "nothing doing" I shall go to Manchester to see my father & brother & sisters. God has been wonderfully good to me Lulu dear & I want to show my gratitude by living more devotedly for him. I can never repay the debt I owe. Everywhere people are wonderfully good to me.

I wonder whether this time next month I shall be with you at Digby? It is just a year since I was there before & everything reminds me of you. The wind, the trees, the roads & the falling leaves & showery weather.

I hope your brothers are both well. Give my kindest regards to your mother & father, & with best love

Yours as ever

Tom