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Thomas Nelson and Sons
PUBLISHERS

35 & 36 PATERNOSTER ROW,
LONDON, E.C.

Nov: 23: 11

My dearest wee mother

I had a comfortable enough journey last night. I found a young Monteith
in the hotel. He was at Oxford with me & is minister of Elie & says he has met Anna &
knows the Camerons. He and his brother are in Edinburgh just now waiting on a very serious
operation which their mother is undergoing. So we have no monopoly of sorrow.
I slept peacefully in the train & woke with my headache cured. I found
Susie very well. It is a mercy that nothing has happened while I have been
away. "Laura" will be sent to you to-day. Tell Walter Norton will
send off the suit to-morrow evening, & he will get it on Saturday
evening. I enclose letters from Dr Fleming, Mrs Belloc-Lowndes, Miss
Sickert, Strachey, A.F. Roberts & the Fergusons of [Providence?]. You might send a