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GOVERNMENT HOUSE
OTTAWA.

Dec. 5, 1935.
Thursday.

My darling Baba

Please please don't think you write me too
many letters. You can't have any idea how I long for them,
and read and re-read them. Marnie too has been most awfully
good, and I do so lovingly thank you for the trouble you take
because I know it is a lot of trouble to write when you have
the house full and are snowed under with telephones etc;
believe me I do appreciate it to the full.

[the next paragraph is typed but has 3 lines striking it out]
I wonder if Gertrude could get me some tiny thing
for Thérèse - a chiffon handkerchief with her initial on it
for about 5/- or anything else of that sort? I should be
so grateful.

I wrote to you on the train between Montreal and
Toronto, and again at Toronto, which town greeted us with
marvellous warmth of welcome. But oh I was tired when
we left. We finished up at a Highland Ball where in an
inferno of heat and noise I tried to talk to the various
kilted gentlemen who were brought up to me. Then we went in
to supper where I had to slash a sordid looking haggis with a
dirk! We stood and shook hands endlessly. Beatrice
and I lunched out with very nice people endlessly, in houses