2110-3-6-1

76, PORTLAND PLACE, W.1.

April: 1: 19

My dearest wee Mother

This is a cold raw morning for Hunt-the-Gowk day. The children have been busy laying traps for Susie & me. Yesterday Susie motored down with Maud Glyn to see Aunt Lily [ST: Mrs Gerald Wellesley], who is 87 & can't live much longer. We are all well. I think on the whole I had better not come on to Peebles from Carlisle. I shall have to come to Scotland about the end of

the month in any case, & I would miss old Nan if I came up, & that seems a pity. When do you & Walter arrive?

To night is the dinner of a Club to which I want to go. The little Nelsons come to-morrow for a day. I wonder how your health is keeping. You have not mentioned it for some time. I had a Peebles boy, called Allott, a friend of Alastair's, to see me yesterday.

Much love to all

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John