Blake thanks Patricia for her two letters. "It is funny, but I can almost read your handwriting now, and what you wrote was definitely just what the doctor had ordered. Otis and I would love to come, and if you can make it, how about the weekend of the 10th? One room...."

He congratulates Patricia regarding Barnes, and tells her not to feel sorry for him regarding the Army. "I am really quite happy about it, since all the uncertainty is over, and one can at last do something definite for the war. Incidentally, it will establish my moral right to go back to England afterwards rather more strongly, I think, particularly if I can get into the fighting in Europe."

He also writes regarding Conrad, calling the incident "unspeakably brutal" and telling Patricia she was "... right not to send him to school here. Was he badly hurt? Please give him my love."

Blach refers to the Detroit riots.