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COCOA TREE CLUB, 64, St JAMES'S STREET, S.W.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. c/o COCOA LONDON. TELEPHONE No 3869.
3 Temple Gardens E.C.
Jan: 20: 1901
My dear old Nan
I was very glad to get Mother's kind letter yesterday. You wll be very quiet without Willie. I am glad that the Mhor's intellect is being recognised. I am afraid I have no news, except that Hamilton has at last received silk i.e. become a Q.C., & to-morrow I go to Rowlatt's chambers. I am doing a great deal of law just now, for
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I really want to feel fairly competent before I get called in June. So what with that & journalism & dining out my time is pretty full. I have got my steeple-chasing pictures framed now and hung in my hall. On Wednesday I dined at Dieudonne's with Mrs Phillimore & some others. She went back to Glasgow on Thursday. She seems to be a great friend of the Glasgows & imitates Lady Alice Boyle's mannerisms tremendously down to singing songs like 'A little
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bit of flannel next the skin" & "Jamie's joined the Volunteers". We went to the Hippodrome pantomime. I wish the Mhor could have seen it. It is really a fine spectacle & the performing seals are immense. On Thursday night Lewis Ferguson came in & sat a long time. Yesterday morning Cubby Medd turned up for breakfast, having come from Alnwick Castle where he seems to have had a pretty poor time, being made to hunt when was afraid & taken to balls which he hated. On Monday I dine with the Johnston-Douglasses, on Thursday with the Russells & on Friday with the Stracheys in their
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new ducal mansion. When I went up to Clapham today I found Aunt reserved & Uncle very well not to say talkative. Aunt has at last got a new cook, the history whereof she told me in three volumes.
I am sorry my unfortunate old father lost the money. Tell Mother her cakes are not nearly done yet & have been much appreciated.
With love to all
Your affectionate brother
John
