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High Commissioner's Office
Johannesburg

March: 3: 1902

My dearest Nan

Many thanks for your last letter. I
had a good budget this week, including letters
from Willie and the Bird [his brother Walter], Uncle Willie & Aunt Kate, Aunt Aggie, Strachey, Cubby Medd, Denman &
Lord Rosebery. Lord R. sent me a long
screed about conciliation which seemed to
go off the line: but he wrote a very
kind, pleasant letter. I am in the most
robust health now, my aged Nan, so you
needn't distress yourself about me. The
weather is quite cold now and very wet,
just like Scotland. Yesterday I went an