Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill](General Headquarters [France]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he comments on the arrival of troops and the good example set by Lord Richard Cavendish by serving as a Colonel of a regiment; discusses casualties in the trenches and the jealousies among the staff and reports that "Goonie" [Gwendeline Churchill formerly Gwendeline Bertie] will have to meet the people in whose house he has been staying. He encloses a poem [see CHAR 28/121/3]. Envelope at CHAR 28/121/4.