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Government House, OTTAWA.
19th November, 1935.
John Edgar, Esq., St. Ann's Nursing Home, Virginia Water, Surrey.
My dear old John,
We have now got more or less comfortably settled down here, after a most dramatic arrival. I had a letter from Alexander Fraser as I came up the St. Lawrence. He seems to be looking forward to a pretty tough winter. I hope to get out west to see him in the spring. This house is like a very big, comfortable English country-house, and the environs of Ottawa are really lovely. I have been out on some of the ski-ing trails, preparatory to winter sport, and it is wonderful to look a hundred miles north and know that there is nothing between you and the North Pole.
I am always wondering how you are keeping, my old friend. I do hope that you are getting hold of yourself and managing to interest yourself in outside things. It will be a slow business, but I am quite certain that you will come out all right by degrees. I only wish I could see you some times.
Will you give my kind remembrances to your sister and your wife?
Yours affectionately,
John
