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tour of perhaps a week either in the
Highlands, Galloway or the Borders. I should
have preferred to go to Kings House &
fish, but the season will be rather late
for that. It will be necessary for me to
keep in touch with the post, as I may be
recalled to London at any moment,
and I shall have to be with Lord M.
sometime in October. I also propose that
you & I should attend B.N.C.
Gaudy together.

But all this depends on what
date you sail. Please write to tell
me what the date is. Sometime at
the end of October or beginning of November
I presume? How is my old mother