A few lines from Manfred

‘O.U. 2 February 1918 ‘What a pity that my service in Berlin dragged on for so long and that I couldn’t come to Schweidnitz again. It would have been so nice and I was really looking forward to it. Now I don’t think I’ll be able to come back to Germany any time soon. Keep Lothar at home for as long as possible; he is very careless with his hearing and doesn’t treat it well at all. I let him know that he doesn’t want to leave before 1 March. Should there be more activity here, he will be informed by me by telegraph. Bolk will probably be very annoyed with me, but it was really not possible for me to stop over in Wahlstatt. I’ll do it in the autumn, when the fields are mown.”’