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7th November, 1928.
My own darling
The debate on the address was very dull yesterday. What promises to be a very dull session is casting its shadow before. I had a long talk with Walter Elliot and Oliver Stanley. I feel pretty certain that unemployment will dish us unless we can get a really big imaginative scheme before the country, and the only scheme I can see is my idea for emigration. Conservative Headquarters seems to be living in a fools paradise.
Have you read Topsy this week? She is perfectly scandalous about poor Anthony Eden.
I had a very pleasant night at the Royal Hospital. Aunt Carrie was staying there, and was very agreeable. Your Mother looks very well indeed.
This morning I have been engaged in discussions with my Argentine friend, and other people. I lunched with Wallace Nesbit, the great lawyer of Toronto, you remember. He thinks Mackenzie King's Government may lose the next election over Lady Willingdon! How different with the B.M.!
I am just going down to the House, and hope to dine quietly
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at Grosvenor Street. I had to unpack my trunk, and goodness knows how Finnigan has repacked it!
Lady Londonderry rang me up this morning, and I am going to tea with her next Tuesday.
Your Mother wants to come to Elsfield for the week-end , and she said she would ring you up.
I hope you are all getting on well.
Bertie Miller (of Peebles) has gone off his head, & is permanently shut up.
Much love [?]
from
John