To his mother Charlotte Capell
Monday, Sept 20 [1915]
[?Bully-Grenay]
Dearest Mother:
I shall have much, one day, to tell you about these times – Enough for the moment that a party of us are installed in the "citta morta" – very few as yet, (Roffe, Willett, myself & another came up with medical stores yest'y at midnight, by blazing September moonlight). This is a life all among the ruins, in cellars & trenches. Monstrous music of the great guns by night & day... Today more glorious September weather; but the night "in cellar cool" was bitter. Quite a lot of strenuous preparatory work. We are quite close to the fire-trenches – nearer than we have had a Dressing-Station before. The scene is amazingly romantic:– we are going to have a change from the harness-polishing & vanities of recent weeks!
Ever my fond love. Richard