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Thomas Nelson
and Sons
Publishers

35 & 36 Paternoster Row,
LONDON E.C.

Dec: 10: 13

My dearest wee Mother

This is a cold grey day. Susie is still in bed,
but her cough is very much better, and I think will soon be
away. Alice & John are going to a party today at the Raphaels,
We had a line from Alastair. He seems to have liked the first
[Oxford entrance] paper yesterday. I dined last night with the Sumners &
met a lot of lawyers. To night I am dining with the Olivers.

Yesterday was a bad day for the righteous, what with
the Wick result & the defeat of Oxford by Cambridge at