Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 63

• December 6, 2018 20:38:33 Thomas A. Lingner

  31/3/17

  My Own Darling Wife,

    Many thanks, your parcel
  

  has arrived safely tonight & the cake

  was eaten for supper, with mugs of

  steaming cocoa. You would not think

  much of my present home. It is very

  home made & is neither wind nor rain proof

  at any point. Its one good feature is

  the stove which we installed & by 

  which we can get warm & possibly

  dry. On two sides there are cracked

  brick walls, on one of which there is a

  manger with a hay rack above it.

  Another side consists of a heap of bricks

  & the forth is one we made of

  wood, held up by heaps of bricks,

  and some of the cracks we have

  endeavored (without much success)

  to fill up with shavings. The roof

  is made of broken planks resting 

  on two iron girders, we have covered

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