25 October 1936

Dear Mother:

This letter will I hope explain my financial position.

I am able, if careful, to put away a £1 a week. At the end of October I will get 4/6 a day from the 12th of October which will come to a little over £4. So at the end of October I should have £10 - I have £5 saved now. Therefore I will have around $50 at the end of this month.

During November I can save another $50. - Now the sad part. I have to buy of course one full dress suit with vests, shirts, etc. Of course I have to wear dress shoes with it.

I have to have a lounge suit right away - this one of mine is gone by the board. Then I need a cloth coat for the winter. I have about two good shirts and three worn out ones.

At least - I get £50 from government for uniforms at Christmas - thank goodness.

I will cost me $100 easy to get fixed up.

By Christmas time I should be caught up, until then I don't think I will be able to help out at home.

Dress Suit

Cloth Coat

Lounge Suit

Ordinary shirts, underwear, shoes, etc.

$30 or more with accessories, ties, socks, shirts, etc.

$25

$30

$20

Goodbye #100.
After Christmas I should be able to send some money home.
It certainly is nice to have 4/6 a day put away till the end of the month.
Today four of us hiked miles along English roads. It would be impossible to describe the beauty of these quaint English towns with their taverns, inns, etc. These Englishmen are swell with their tweed sports coats and flannels with a pipe between their teeth striding along with canes.
Many cottages have thatched roofs and look exactly as they did a hundred years ago. - I am really sold on England 100 percent.
They are fresh air fiends and always have every available window open all the time. It must be all right because since I arrived here I haven't had a single cold and I have never felt fitter in my life. I sleep like a rock, the air here is wonderful.
I just found out today that another of our chaps comes from British Guiana South America. Another chap left Spain in a British destroyer to join the R.A.F. after Spanish difficulty - very interesting crowd.
Start pushing letters my way you lazy hounds.
Love, Bill