St Edward's WWI Letter Transcriptions

and a mosque or two. I came away from the pyramids feeling very young and insignificant – they are simply stupendous, and one can’t grasp their age, but of course you have seen them. This is really quite a nice spot and we have an unlimited supply of excellent water, which is the thing after all. I have been about 7 or 8 miles out into the desert on various jobs, and I must say it grows on one, and now has a most tremendous fascination for me; the unlimited space, silence, and deadness of it is so extraordinary and the sunsets simply defy description. The weather too is simply perfect, hot by day and quite cold by night; however, we had last week an idea of what it can do, in a 2 days sandstorm and of all meteorological phenomena, it is quite the most appalling. You could comfortably lose a war 100 yards away and it gets into everything and is very painful. It has one saving grace in that it is clean and one’s clothes and bedding only want shaking.