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3, TEMPLE GARDENS, TEMPLE.
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My dearest Mother
Just a short line to wish you well. You will have got Anna back by this time. I hope she enjoyed herself. She bore Willie's departure very well. I hope you are also keeping cheerful, old body. Things are going on with me much as usual – pretty busy and a fearsome
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amount of dining out. Last night I dined at the Gathorne-Hardy's and Dorothy Malcolm and [I] went to Richard II, which bored me a great deal because I had seen it before.
Tonight I am dining with Haldane, tomorrow with J. G. Hamilton & Friday with the Horners, and then on Saturday I am going down to Gerard
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Craig-Sellars' house in Hampshire for the weekend. I still find London a very pretty muggy place, not to be mentioned in the same breath as Buchansdorp.
I have no news at all yet about my movements: but if don't go to Cochin-China, I am afraid I will have to stay in town over Xmas & New Year, unless I can get up to Scotland from a Friday to a Monday. Strachey is
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going away & I shall have to attend to the management of the paper. More by token, if I stay in London, I wish my connection with journalism kept quiet,- so don't let people think I am doing anything but the Bar.
You shouldn't have sent me that cheque; but if you run short you must just let me know.
With much love to all
Yours affectionately
J.B
