Calder-Marshall, Arthur to "My dearest wife" [Alice Calder-Marshall], 13/26 Dec. 1915

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Also notable is Calder-Marshall's system of writing dates. He may have been using the Soviet Calendar, which dropped 2 weeks from February 1918.

"My dearest Wife, Just a few lines from the office, first of all to thank you very much for your presents, the book and letter case both of which arrived and for your telegram which also arrived but which I could not answer by a telegram as at the present time no telegrams are being sent from here to England and it is more than doubtful if any letters are being sent. We also know that passengers unless there is some special reason find it very hard to get away..."