France
19/6/18.

My Dear Sister,

I have a couple of your letters now and the picture, which I think is mighty good.

To-day had a letter from the Mater May 21^st and one from Dad June 3^rd, going some, what! Also one from Floss. By the way, cut the A.P.O. 4 off my address. You have never said if the photo of the concert party arrived OK. Also you never mentioned the arrival of the 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ films, I sent from East-Bourne. I think at different times I sent two books each, more or less, filled of [?] and 2 ¼ x 2 ¼. Did all of these arrive O.K.? I asked you once before, but know you have been too busy to bother with such things. During the summer, I hope you will try out the big machine around home. [?] will help you and I would very much like to have some prints. You had better use the Aldis lens, but be careful of them. That Burroughs Wellcome diary will give you good instruction, but you will need one of the current year for the timing. I find a little more time for exposure and considerably more for development, than they advise, does not do any harm. Of course time development instructions apply to their developers only.

The Brantford snaps are O.K. but could have stood a little more time. If they are with the 6.3 [Premo.?] cut down the aperture and use the ⅒^th exposure whenever possible to set it on anything and when holding it in the hands if you can hold it still enough. The cable release makes this possible. The smaller aperture gives finer detail and cleanness nearer the camera, and further from it, than any larger aperture – this is the depth of focus. You do not want this depth tho, in close up portraits, so always use the largest aperture for this work. I would give a fortune to have a movie machine over here. It would be wonderful to be able to see it all again, ten years from now.

So Max is waiting for a vacancy in the R.A.F. I don’t imagine he will have to wait very long – what!

The Thompson-Tillson affair is certainly a poser. What branch was George drafted to, I don’t see how they have ever missed Hill.

Poor Mir is certainly getting her share of the night stuff. It won’t

Wont Jack Barnes make some soldier? They will have to fold him up to get him into a trench or a hospital bed.

Well honey, my noon hour is about up and I must get busy.

Your loving brother
Worth.

Wrote Mir yesterday, so you needn’t send this on.
W.D.