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3, TEMPLE GARDENS, TEMPLE.

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My dearest old Mother

I hope you are feeling pretty well today and getting good from the change. Lady Ridley has just sent me some copies of poor Cubby's presses & I have sent one to Anna.

It is still bitterly cold and raw. I wish the spring would

come in earnest & thaw me. I heard from little Marshall today from Nice. Everybody seems to have fled to the South of France. Gerard Craig Sellar leaves on Monday for Sutherland where he has taken a salmon- river – which is one way of reconciling oneself to absence from S. Africa.

I went to a large dinner last night at the Ladies Empire Club. The ladies made very good hosts. I saw Admiral Fisher, & Arthur Lee, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord & Lady Stanhope and a lot of others. The great difficulty afterwards was finding some place to smoke, – a thing that ladies' clubs neglect.

I am pretty busy just now, as the Revenue Sittings begin on Monday, & I have many cases to prepare for the

Attorney-General. I hope to get out to Clapham this week end.

With much love

Yourt affectionate son

John