Autograph letter signed : France, to William Archer, 1916 Feb. 17.

Sending some verses (Mak Toob) "which it might be worth while to print" remarking that if published "they might come by chance under the eyes of English soldiers and the idea they contain might have a real appeal to one to whom that of Christianity is inadequate and that of patriotism too abstract," and asking Archer to have them published "no matter what review or newspaper." Reporting that he is laid up in hospital with a "slight illness" but that he does not mind because his division is not in the trenches, but in the rear in reserve. Noting that "when the big push comes in the Spring we are sure to be in the places of most honor." Discussing his manuscript book of poems, which he left by mischance and which is not in a safe in the backyard of the St. Catherine Press; noting that if he comes through the war the volume will "have the value only of the necessary prelude to what I intend to compose," but that if he does not live it will at least have a "relative value."