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HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, JOHANNESBURG,

Feb: 12:: 1902 My dear Bird

I was delighted to get a few notes from your tuneful throat. You must excuse a shortish letter, as I am very thrang (ST busy). All the people at Port Elizabeth seem happy & well, thought Mother has fits of homesickness. The time will soon pass, and our family, formerly the most stay-at-home and

now the most widely travelled - will be united. I expect, now that this wanderlust [underlined] has bitten in to hear at any moment of you starting for Klondyke and William for Siberia.

I am very glad you are comfortable in your lodgings. How are you getting on at College this year? I am very well and so sunburned that my face aches. The broadest-brimmed Panama hat

will not keep out this merciless African sun. I wish I could send you some photographs, but I had only 3 sets & one went to Anna, one to Aunt Kate & one to Mother. I hope however to send you some photographs of my house & horses. Send me any good ones you take.

There is small chance, I fear, of my being back this year. I am up to the neck in intricate work which I can't very

well leave off for some time. That Johannesburg plot was all nonsense, as you will see from my last letter to Anna. H.E. is very well & I think is beginning to see his way more clearly.

With much love Your affectionate brother John