2110-3-5-18

76, PORTLAND PLACE, W.1.

Feb: 20: 19

My dearest wee Mother

I hope I am right in writing to you to Peebles to-day. I do hope you & old Nan have got back safely & have taken no ill effects. It is much milder here, but very wet

The children are all quite convalescent now, & have had no temps for several days. There is no class just now as Miss [Bennan?] & half the children have or have just had flu.

I enclose poor George Anderson's letter. I am lunching today

with John Millais, the big-game hunter & biographer of Selous. [ST (reading this as 'Setons'): his sister's novel]

Susie has got some servants, but she can't hear of a housemaid. They seem unprocurable, just now. There is going to be a day of reckoning for these blighters.

I am quietly and pleasurably busy at my office just now - a nice change after the last two hectic years.!

Much love to all

[illegible]

John

Alice has so enjoyed the little books Nan sent her