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HOTEL BELLEVUE
BEACON STREET, BEACON HILL
BOSTON

Oct: 20: 24

My dearest wee Mother

We were delighted to get your last kind
letter & Nan's & one from John. I hope the blind
pony did him no harm. You will be all settled at
Peebles by this time. I wrote you last on the eve of
my War Memorial address. I spoke in a huge gymnasium, not
with any great comfort, to a very large audience, & I
think I got on all right. The Bishop of Massachusetts said it
was the finest address he had listened to, and it certainly
solemnized them. On Friday we were taken to Plymouth
Rock & some old New England houses. There was a big
dinner party that night, & on Saturday we went to the Roger