Maerbrook, Exmouth,
Devon
Dec. 26.1914

Dear Granny,

I have just managed to get a few minutes in which I can do a little writing which should have been done long ago. It's a little late to which you a Merry Christmas, but I hope you had one. Don't think Granny dear that I didn't come down to Cornwall because I thought I should have had a better time in London. I should have enjoyed myself down in M[?] better than Covering all over the Country as I have have been the last few days. I have however done what I wanted to, and seen nearly all the friends and relations. My pass was made out from the 22nd to 28th but I managed to get hold of it at 4:30 on the 21
Your Parcecl - for which very many thanks arrived - just as I was leaving and I made my tea off a big piece of the cake and some of the Chocolate. I got a motor bus from the Camp and got to Salisbury after a very pretty journey during which we ran into a ditch a & up a bank twine.

I got into London rather late saw the Weblings and beat it on to Richmond where I had to ring Tonny out of bed it being 12.30 I slept like a log on the drawing room sofa & next day did quite a lot of shopping with May & spent quite a little while [?] have been the last few days [?] cutting - shampooing shining & generally cleaning up. I spent a nice evening with Tonny's Uncle & Col and early next morning went to Cambridge which I [?] way late in the afternoon as the trains were all twisted up. Amy, Tom & Eula seemed very well, and have an awfully nice farm and house. I stayed there overnight and next morning went to Woolwich to see Robin's Molly. I like her very much indeed, she seems a real out & out nice sensible straight forward sort of a girl, not aristocratic by any means but none the worse for that. You were prompted to great grandmother a month ago, but the poor little fellow died soon after being born They say he was a danty little kid and and [?] naturally feels pretty cut up about [rest of letter is missing]