Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 10 December 1918, Manuscript, PRG 18/17/54/1
Letter from Ross to his mother, Jessie Smith, while on active service during World War I. Written at Chabahar, Persian Gulf. Ross speaks of plans of arriving in India the following afternoon in the Handley Page bomber after flying to Karachi and two days later arriving in Delhi. Also mention of the aeroplane flying well with the Rolls Royce engines purring along for well, with the longest air time being seven hours from Damascus to Baghdad.