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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