Excerpt from Letters From Flanders: Written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to His Home PeopleIf he wished, he might have stayed in Oxford and taken up the work of fellow and tutor of a College, but he was very definite in his desire to come out into professional life and to read for the Bar, he wished particularly to devote himself to the study of International Law.He loved every hour of Winchester and Oxford and then the crown of it all was the nine months' trip he took with his father after leaving Oxford. They visited East Africa, China, Corea, Canada, and the United States. I can never forget Douglas' letters to me en voyage, nor the talk we had about it all when he came back. Those who knew him and all who read the letters in this volume appreciate his fresh ness of mind, his sense of humour, his grip of a situa tion, his love of nature, the knowledge of men and things and their history which his wide reading and intellectual alertness were fast developing. This rare opportunity brought into play all these gifts and powers at their best. Few fathers have had such a time with such a son at such a moment of his life! It was a joy to think of them together then it is a comfort now to know that the father has the precious memory of those days to treasure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.