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）的书信。信中提及以下内容：完成信号训练后返回所属军营；为此前未能及时致信致歉；期望能够持续寄送支票；谈及近期德军的推进动向；偶然间开启日记撰写；偶遇中学好友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）空袭被毁；调侃家中弟妹将钱财浪费在糖果之上，同时提及玛格丽特从普利茅斯（Plymouth）寄来的近期照片；告知目前暂无休假安排；正在阅读弗兰克·莫里斯（Frank Morris）所著的《矿井》（The Pit）；谈及音乐相关事宜以及军营部分留声机唱片近期受损的情况；描述当晚闷热难耐，盼能喝上一杯艾尔啤酒。