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76, PORTLAND PLACE,
W.1.

Feb: 12: 19

My dearest wee Mother

We were very glad to get your kind letter this morning. If
you miss us, we miss Peebles & you most horribly. Our decaying
family is for the most part on its legs again. Susie is better & Alice
is still coughing but fairly well. Only poor old Bill is very
sorry for himself. His temp. keeps above 100 & he has got a cold
on his chest, but the doctor is not anxious about him. Nanny is
very overdone, poor thing, & her temper is precarious. We are being
lent a maid to-day for a week by Aunt Blanchie.

Will you give Walter the enclosed little book. Tell [him] it is
one of those we used to smuggle into Germany in parcels, & it is very rare.