Specific references include:
rehearsing for a play in January and February;
an outbreak of measles in College from February to May;
‘earning’ money for a war fund by doing chores such as lighting each other’s fires, 23 January;
rationing, eg being reduced to ‘one scuttle of coals a day’, 28 January, and scarcity of items such as tea and sugar, 7 November;
air raids 2 Nov 1917;
further family losses of friends, also death in action of H G’s friend Jack Booth on 17 November, mentioned 25 November 1917;
mention of Peel House, Horseferry Road, London, where H G had done voluntary waitressing work in 1916, 2 December;
a particularly long description of a game of golf on 18 November with Joyce, ‘such a treat to get right away from College’;
picking apples and pears and storing them in the ‘swimming bath’, 16 October.
A letter of 30 December 1917 is addressed from Ockendene, Cuckfield, Sussex [presumably while visiting family or friends].