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3, TEMPLE GARDENS, TEMPLE.

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My dearest old Mother

I hope you are feeling well & bright today. The weather here is a little better – more spring-like. I hope it will soon improve in that wild country of Scotland, and that you will be well enough to get away to the country soon. I think it important that you should get away

from the scene of your worries; and I am afraid 34 Q. M. Avenue is that. I have been trying to impress upon Anna to get someone to write to me every day, as I am always anxious for news of my old mother.

I dined at the Athenaeum Club last night, an interesting dinner, chiefly of government officials. To night

I am dining with Sir Clinton Dawkins. I spend most of life having excited wrangles with people who attack Milner. It is a subject on which I cannot keep my temper, as one of my few virtues is loyalty.

I hope to have a big S. African mail today.

There is such a tremendous row in the Cabinet about Brodrick, that the Government may

resign at any moment and plunge us into a general election.

Today is the election of the London County Council & like a good citizen I propose to go & record my vote for the Moderate candidates.

With much love to all

Your affectionate son

John