Consists of a letter from Archibald Douglas Mason to his uncle and aunt from France. He writes about the difficulty of life in the trenches, remarking that the mud is knee deep and the shelling continuous. He comments that 'the spirit of the fighting' is different to what it was at the start, with 'no respect paid to burial parties'. He also writes that men with 'frost bite, rheumatism, colds and coughs' are regularly admitted to hospital.