20.12.16.
Dear Mother Many thanks for your letter & that pack of cards. Most useful as the ones I had off last year’s Xmas tree are very dirty. I want Lesley & Roberts to have the leather buttons, never mind about the tabs.
So glad the keys arrived at last. I managed to wake them up at Marseilles. I suppose Eric Robyns has got a Military X by now. Fancy having 20 soldiers to tea, what a business. Get the photographs in the camera developed for me. Do you want any more money?
The new Government seem to be going to do things alright.
Best love to all
Yr loving son
Richard.
Captain Eric George Hugh Robyns
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) (no MC)