Calder-Marshall, Arthur to "My dearest wife" [Alice Calder-Marshall], Friday May 12th/25th '17

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, It is quite [nice?] down here, real summer but that day I left Petrograd last Saturday night it was snowing hard and outside the town laying and not melting as it fell! In Moscow too it was very cold and damp but here it has been lovely and yesterday being a public holiday, one of many, I [?] walk into the Gardens and sat and baked in the sun and felt all the better for it..."