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Thomas Nelson and Sons
Publishers
Parkside Works
Dalkeith Road
Edinburgh
Jan: 23: 14
My own little darling
I have just got your letter. I am glad you got to the play, & I
do hope you are feeling well & taking great care of yourself. The weather here
continues bright and clear. I had a busy morning here yesterday, and went out to
Fairnilee at 2.35. James, the chauffeur, regarded me much as a
conscientious Christian martyr may have regarded the Emperor Nero. I thought Mr Roberts
truly better. Mrs Roberts is still in bed, but is rapidly getting well, he says.
Yesterday was her birthday, & I will get her some small present in Edinburgh to-day.
I saw the Scott-Plummers at Galashiels station, Muriel looks very pretty, &
Charlie with that high bloom which hunting men get in the winter season.
Crustall arrived at Fairnilee with neuritis in his arm & a bad cold, but
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Alexander Fowler Roberts built the new Fairnilee House around 1905. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Like JB's Uncle Willie. JB often stayed with the Roberts' when speaking in the constituency. Roberts was either his political agent or the chairman of the Peebles and Selkirk Conservative and Unionist Association. (It's hard to tell.) Fairnilee was a big house on the banks of Tweed near Galashiels.
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