Kelly.

How badly this is kept. Such a lot of things have happened & I am too lazy to write.

I was hoping about a month ago with a septic finger which however very soon cleared up & healed, but when I returned to the hospital I found myself moved away from Ward 6 out to one of the tents under Sister Musgrove. Here all was new, & I had to begin all over again.

Before my finger was bad Chilly also had a bad finger & was away for some weeks during which time we nurses were left very much to our own devices & had everything to do dressings medicines &c, we had quite a good time. Up in the tent Sister Musgrove does a lot of the things that Chilly used to make us do. It is very nice up there, so every & fresh, the stuffy atmosphere of a hospital is sometimes almost unbearable.

Now I am home again, came back on Tuesday for 2 days leave & returned on Friday, but at Southernhay found all confusion. Evelyn had during my absence developed scarlet fever. She was packed off to the ‘Sanatorium’, & Robert said I was to go home again until 20, in case I got it too, so all my things had to be packed up & I caught the 2.23 train home again.

Serbia has been practically wiped out. Evelyn’s sister Ethel Bankhast who went out in the spring with a hospital unit as an interpreter, was at Belgrade when the Germans came. For weeks they had no news of her, but some few days ago Evelyn got a cable saying that she was safe at Salonika having walked through the mountains of Albania. There was, a few days after this wire came, an account in the paper of how a party of doctors & English nurses have done this and the description of their trials & sufferings. It must have been the same party to which Ethel Bankhast belonged.

Mary writes very happily from London where she is at work at the War Office doing clerks work in connection with soldiers wills.