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[left margin:] meals. God bless you my darling do take care of yourself & dont work hard every minute of the time.

Ever your own loving little Moufflée

the children send their best love.

[top:] 76, PORTLAND PLACE, W.

October 23rd

My own darling John

I didn't know what to do when you went off today. I felt so lonely - & oh so wanted to hold on to you & not let you go, but I am being very good I am going to read & occupy myself while you are away. I

have finished Montrose I am sorry to say. You have every reason to be proud of having written it. You have not only made a very tangled bit of history so clear but you have brought out all

its beauty & romance. I have enjoyed every word of it. Doctor Williams came today he says that I am not well yet though much better & I must still stay in bed - he added that my [lion etc?] is is doing me ever so much

more good than if I was up & about, so I shall just stay quietly in bed, & keep quiet. He says that (a propos of your cough in the mornings) you ought to cut off smoking - just for a while anyhow, & that any indigestion you get from not smoking would probably be cured by a soda mint after