To his mother, says he finds troop inspections are tiring work; keeps meeting old friends, and has been acting as driver to Mrs [Jessie] Auchinleck and Auchineck's ADC Tony Phillpotts; Auchinleck is "full of humour". Adds he has been befriended by a couple called Troup, the husband is head of the college of agriculture in Hampshire [pres. Sparsholt College].
Dated at: the Grange, New Alresford [Hants].