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3, TEMPLE GARDENS, TEMPLE.
July: 18: 05
My dear old Nan
Just a line to pass the time of day. I hear you have found a house for August. I hope it is a nice one. You can tell me when I see you on Sunday. St Abbs must be pleasant just now. We have had an awful time of airless, breathless heat; but there are signs that it is beginning to break. I hope it may be cooler when you
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come up.
Remember you are coming to a party of mine next Monday; though I am afraid the said party is tending to break up. The Lytellton girls have failed: and now my American lady has been compelled to depart for Noo Yark today, leaving me broken-hearted. Though I bear it with manly fortitude, life can never be the same to me again as story-books say.
How long are you staying in
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London? I hope to get up to St Abbs any week end in August except the first, when I am going to Crabbet. Thank goodness this weary season approaches its end, but the last 3 weeks have been the worst I can remember. Last week end I went down to the Lugards (the High Commissioner of W. Africa), who have a very pleasant house on the top of a hill in Surrey. The Alfred Lytteltons were there & the Scarboroughs.
I had a letter from Willie last week, who seems in excellent
