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Telegrams: Gatehouse, 2 miles
Stations: Dromore, Portpatrick R'y 7 miles or
Kirkudbright, G. & S.W.R'y 10 miles.
Ardwall,
Gatehouse of Fleet.
N.B.
[handwritten notes in pencil: '1902?'
and 'Easter week (see over)', with blue ink tick]

Thursday
My dear Mother

I arrived here yesterday
[crossed out with] in a snow storm, having left
London in beautiful summer weather.
I travelled by the Midland which
is the most comfortable line i[n]
the world. Johnnie met me at
Dromore with a new horse
& for those ten miles I should
think we hold the world's record.
It was pitch dark as we swung
round corners like