4/11/1915,
Dear Everybody,
Here I am back in London again, just arrived from Edinburgh on Tues. evening. Had a rare good time in Scotland & enjoyed it tip-top. When leaving London did not expect to see as much of Scotland as I did. Of Edinburgh I can not say enough, & the Huttons were very good to me indeed. Very funny how you meet people. Robert Hutton & I were walking along one of the street in Edinb. & who should we run across but Mr Finalyson our old machine gun officer & Bertie
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Huttons officer. He was looking so ill that it took me all my time to recognize him. He is also a great friend of Mr Huttons where I was staying, Hutton having spent some time with him when in N.Z. We trotted him along to see Mr Hutton in his shop, & he hardly knew him either. However Finalyson had to go along to the doctor, so we strolled round with him, poor beggar he could hardly walk & when he cam back from doctor he gave us the news that he was ordered back to bed for an indefinite period. It knocked all arrangements on the head for he was to have gone up to Huttons & had dinner with us, but it was not to be. I went in to see him before leaving & he said he felt much better, & looked it.
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I can not write you much today am writing this just before going out to have a look round St Paul’s Cath. & Westminter Abbey, mail will be closed before I get back so it must be now or never. Have been very busy since coming to London getting ready to go out again, leave being up on the 10th. Feeling so fit again that I am certain I will manage to pass the doctors. Have not been advised yet when the medical board is to sit, but expect it will be the end of this week or the beginning of next. Have received no mail
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again this week, can’t understand it. However all the more when it does arrive. The young fellow Leslie that was staying here before I left for Scotland is staying here again he having to get an extra months leave, & I believe he will need another, not fit enough to go back there. At present time I believe the N.Z. & Aust. division is reorganising on Lemnos. Going back perhaps any day whether to Gallipoli or Serbiar or Bulgaria I do not know, but would like if it were either of the latter. However beggar can not be choosers & we mus go where we are sent & be content. So far as I can
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I am the only officer of the squadron that is left to go back, the others all being out permanently. I guess there is some promotion flying out there just now. Well now I can here these folk are about ready, so I must be off. Kindest regards to everybody
Yours Affectionate
Brother
E.S. McI.
