posted on 2024-05-02, 16:14authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Describes having fallen and cut his hands / convalescing in hospital / sketching and painting fellow 'invalids' / explains 'fib' about having enlisted only for home duty when in reality he has enlisted for full duty / has left poems and a short play with a friend to forward on to the poet Lascelles Abercrombie or to Marsh / prefers poetry to painting / asks for a box of chocolates.