Letter: To Margaret Blunden.

Letter from Edmund Blunden to his mother Margaret. He writes describing returning to the battalion after signalling practice / apologizes for having failed to write before / hopes to be able to continue sending cheques / recent German advances / beginning a diary, accidently / meeting T. L. Wright Housey, a friend from school, who assures him that London has not been destroyed by zeppelin raids / jokes about little brothers and sisters and their wasting money on sweets and recent photographs sent from Plymouth by Margaret / reports no leave as yet / reading Frank Morris's 'The Pit' / discusses music and recent damage to some battalion gramaphone records / a sultry night / wishing for some ale.

埃德蒙·布伦登（Edmund Blunden）致母亲玛格丽特（Margaret）的信函。信中记述了其完成信号训练后返回营部的经历，为此前未能及时回信致歉，提及希望能够继续寄送支票，谈到德军近期的阵地推进，并偶然间开始撰写日记；偶遇母校旧友T·L·赖特·豪西（T. L. Wright Housey），对方告知伦敦并未因齐柏林飞艇（Zeppelin）空袭遭到损毁；信中还调侃了家中弟妹将钱财浪费在糖果之上，并提及玛格丽特从普利茅斯（Plymouth）寄来的近期照片；报告称目前暂未获得休假许可，正在阅读弗兰克·莫里斯（Frank Morris）所著的《深渊》（*The Pit*）；谈及音乐相关话题以及营部部分留声机（gramaphone）唱片近期受损的情况，提及当晚天气闷热，表达了对饮用爱尔啤酒（ale）的渴望。