From: Hastings, Sussex
Sun. 8 Sept. 1918

Dearest Mother -

Yesterday, I received a letter from you - yours of Aug. 20. The last one I had received was the one you wrote on Aug. 5. So, I have missed the long one you wrote in between them. I hope I get it in a day or two as I have missed so many of your letters that I seem to have lost track of things.

Yesterday, I went to see the dentist again but he hasn't filled it yet. It was too tender for him to drill in it so he treated it with arsenic. He told me it might ache for awhile and it certainly did. Last evening and all last night, it was real bad, but it seems about alright now. I shall have to go back again next Saturday.

Some of the fellows went to London yesterday to see some sports that were taking place, but I was not one of those to get picked out to go. Yesterday afternoon, Casey and I had our pictures taken together. I hope they turn out alright but they won't be ready for a couple of weeks yet. Casey has had two or three letters from one of the fellows in France and they all seem to be getting along alright. I understand that Kelly, one of the fellows in that Haillicourt group, who had put in for a commission in the Machine Gun Corps, has at last got away so is probably somewhere on leave in England now. We would like to see him very much and learn at first hand how things have been going at the battery.

We have a mid-term examination in Topography next Wednesday but I don't expect it will be very hard. Some of the fellows here don't seem to have any idea about things at all.

Best wishes to you all.
Yours sincerely,
Gordon