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[Nov. 20. 1935)

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had been nosing round for any left over scraps of bacon.
The sunset was magnificent. There is so much more mauve and
purple in the sky than there ever is at home, and it is really
very lovely as a background to the black tree trunks.

I am struggling with the addresses of the Montreal
and Toronto Canadian Women's Clubs and I feel quite sick when
I think of either of them. In a moment of altruism I said
I would take over the speaking in the women's club to
relieve John as he is so snowed under by requests to speak
but oh dear I don't know how I shall get away with it!

Alastair and Beatrice have taken up skating and
go to the Minto Club most mornings , and I am having a young
people's party and a little dance tonight. Nothing was
communicated to the Press about this, but it got about in
Ottawa that this was happening and so many unmarried females
wrote their names down at Government House that the queue of
cars stretched from the door to the gate!

I thought perhaps you would keep my letters numbering
them 1. 2. 3. 4. and so forth and I would get them
inexpensively bound, as I find I can't somehow write a diary,
there isn't time - or rather there isn't the energy somehow!
This is a very interrupted life, and if one is attempting to
write anything in the way of authorship one has rather to to
concentrate on that.