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Issued by the Mission of the Society of Friends, operating under the control of the [French] Military Health Service. With personal and physical information filled in by hand. Signed by Trevelyan and by the President of the Mission, T. E. Harvey. Stamp of the Ministère de la Guerre

British Red Cross Society, First British Ambulance Unit for Italy, Intendenza IIIa Armata, Zona di Guerra. - Thanks Bob for his letter of 5 November, and for forwarding Pease's letter. Has spoken to Edwardes and thinks it possible that he and Sykes will return to Fr[iends] War Victims Relief work in France when the ambulance unit disbands, which George hopes will be early next year; has asked Edwardes to speak to anyone he thinks suitable, so that they can offer their services to [Edmund] Harvey when the time comes. Asks Bob to tell Harvey that George will do all he can to help; would be useful to have up to date information about the FWVRC's 'recent and prospective work', and what kind of people are required, as well as whether this work is all unpaid.

Rydal House, Grosvenor Road, Leeds 6. - Has been slow to thank Trevelyan for sending his book ["Aftermath"] but wanted to wait until he had read all the poems. Thinks it is 'a fine harvest: noble and austere Lucretian verses' as well as ones 'of fiery scorn' with which Trevelyan 'lash[es] the worshippers of Mammon and Moloch'; thinks he would 'single out' the last two poems to Lowes Dickinson and Desmond MacCarthy, and is thankful for Trevelyan's 'faith in the enduring spiritual values' which ends the final poem.

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Glad Robert is going [to France with the Friends War Victims Relief Committee] with Mr [Thomas Edmund?] Harvey; has heard excellent things about him. Disappointed not to have Elizabeth and Julian with them, but agrees with her decision, as the trains would have been crowded with school-children returning from holiday and 'every sort of roughter holiday-makers who have to take their time off when they can', and it is now more than a day's journey from the Shiffolds to Wallington. The grouse have failed most unaccountably: Charles only got a sixth of the normal bag; the Swinburnes write that they have no grouse at their 'excellent moor of Mounces'; and Keilder [sic: Kielder], mentioned in Macaulay, which the Duke of Northumberland had let for 300 pounds, only provided a brace on the first day - the Duke gave back the rent. He himself has not fired a gun since 1914 'and never shall'.