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the heading of corruption; even so,
I am content with it.

My little doctor is very
strict but very cheerful, & we are both
pretty confident that I will be back in
town before Ascot, & able to wear
the nice new old-world clothes, which
I ordered from Messrs Poole, as
the right thing for one of buckish
tendencies, who is at the same time
a dweller in that region of Gay
Severity wh. men call Belgravia.

Get Susie to forgive me
for my neglect (so far) of her
brother-in-law's eggs.

Anthony Trollope is a
great writer.

Curtis, Philip Kerr &
most of their really high souled companions
(not Bob Brand & Dougie of course: who
wd call him 'high souled'?) are really,
in human form, the same things as
military gentlemen use to make

[in margin:] smoke screens with. Curtis I'm sure blew a smoke screen in the face of
the howdie who ushered him into the world, & he has been blowing
them ever since in every quarter of the globe. Yours F.S.O.