I am sending this by a chum who is coming home on leave so that it will not be censored…My first impressions of a strafe are very vivid, especially of the bombardment which Fritz gave us when he discovered he was gassed…I often think of Manchester and the happy times the first years had last year, thanks in many instances to the efforts of yourself and Mrs. Tout. As a confirmed optimist I am expecting to be in Manchester again by Oct. 1917. News sometimes percolates through but of the doings of the History School I can find out very little.