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pancakes. Today I was ill-advised
enough to go to chapel, and found a
service of nearly twice its proper length
in honour of Ash Wednesday.

I do not need any money, thank you.
I will manage comfortably till the end of term,
which is about 4 weeks. I collected £1
for Professor Veitch, which I have
dispatched to Glasgow. I am getting on
by degrees with J. B. of B. That type-writer
is hanging over my head. How on earth I
am to buy it without the money from that
wretched B. W. [British Weekly] I don't know.

Love to all. Father, Yourself , Anna,
Willie, Ervie [nickname for Walter], & the valiant Peter [Alastair].

Your affectionate son
John Buchan