2110-1-10-14

c/o Lord Milner

Johannesburg.

June: 28: 1902

My dearest old Mother

This is the third letter I have begun to you this week, but I have always been interrupted. I was very much alarmed to hear of your illness, and I had written to you at Cape Town before I heard of it. I do hope you

will pick up on the voyage, and get good weather, for it will be an awful business if you arrive home ailing. You must take it very quietly at home, and not bother about the church or any other trifle. Where do you propose spending the summer – in Glasgow or Peeblesshire?

They will be very glad to see you back, & I hope Father & the Mhor will also benefit by the sea voyage.

All kinds of impudent Fifers, who say they come from Kirkcaldy, keep writing to me familiarly & asking for jobs. I had also letters of the same kind from Jack Napier and from a boy Lyon, from Peebles. David Honeyman wrote me a long letter this week, full of ridiculous questions about natives and temperance. I got my English mail yesterday, with cheerful letters from Anna & Willie. Did you see that my book has gone into a second edition already

I am glad you had such a good parting at Port Elizabeth, but you must be sure to recover the money from Macrobert.

Take good care of your health, my dear old Mother. I am very well but hustled a good deal.

With much love from

Your affectionate son

John