BR is ill. "Your energy and capacity for work would have annoyed any trade union to the point of murdering you, if you happened to be the member of one."

The year of this undated letter is surely the first half of 1918 or 1917. BR was still going to committees, thus it was written before he went to prison.

The enclosed poem has a drawing of a lady, nicely painted and executed. The letter has a drawing of Mackenzie dancing.