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Governor's House Thorshavn Faeroes
Sunday July: 31: 32
My own little Precious one,
I do hope you are feeling better & that the little boys are with you and looking after you. Do take the utmost care of your precious health, for I shall be horribly disappointed if when I come back I don't find you like a lioness refreshed!
First, for plans. I think I see a chance of leaving next week. We are loving this place, but I don't want to be
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away from you too long, so I shall try to get the Copenhagen boat, which leaves on Aug 8th, to drop us at Lerwick - in which case we should be home about the 12th. But I will wire as soon as we reach Scotland.
We had a fair voyage. John was not sick, but retired to bed on the Sunday evening. The Governor & his family are the soul of hospitality, & simply load us with kindness. You would love the small boys like little Vikings.
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What have we been doing? Well, we have been to see the leader of the Nationalists who lives in a wonderful Viking house. We went 30 miles up the coast & humped our kit over 7 miles of hills to a lovely place called Saxen, where we had some excellent fishing. I got a sea-trout of 4 lb odd. We came back here for the festival of St Olav, when the whole place went daft. We went to church in state. Yesterday the whole family took us a picnic to a lighthouse, where we saw
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some fowling. To day we start for an island called Saxoi, where we shall be fishing for several days. A Danish man-of-war is expected from Greenland, and it is willing to take us on a trip to some of the outer skerries. So you see we are filling up our time. It is a wonderful holiday, utterly unlike anything I have done before. We are both very well, & the medicine box is unopened. The food is
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unbelievably good. They cook fish far better than the Ritz!
I hope you have retrieved both the boys in good form & that they are a comfort to you. And I do hope my little girl is getting on all right in Germany.
Don't trouble to write, for it won't catch me, if we leave on Monday the 8th. I will wire to Mrs Webb not to forward any letters at all.
God bless you, my own little
