1 Dear Friend
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3 Thank you for your letter. Dear Mrs Murray has offered me a little
4cottage on her farm close to Graaff Reinet & I might have gone to see
5if the lower air would relieve me, but my niece Winnie Hemming whom I
6had asked to come & stay with me for two months (I paying her of
7course) can’t come as she’s just taken a situation as teacher at
8Marshes Homes & I can’t go without some one to help me. If I do go to
9Europe in December too, I don’t want to leave Cron for a day if I can
10struggle on here. He says he is not going to Europe just yet.
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12 Emily Hobhouse is perhaps coming out to unveil the Monument to the
13Boer women at Bloemfontein, & she writes she wants me to come back
14with her as she has a little maid who would she says help to take care
15of us both. I shall not be able to stay more than a few days in
16England in the winter & shall go on at once, I think to Italy to the
17Riviera. If you are home in Geneva before I go, would you do something
18for me. Go to Clarens & call at Hotel Roth. It is (or was!) a str
19smallish Hotel on the side of the lake, the lake washing its walls.
20Only Germans & Russians used to go there. If you can find it would you
21ask what the terms are for an upstairs room over looking the lake. I
22had the end room which I liked best & would you write & tell me. I
23shall give you my London address. It was very cheap in the old days,
24but 28 years is a long time. It may not exist now. I fear I shall find
25all changed, as much as I am.
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27 I am glad all goes so well with the children. Give my dear love to
28Lucy when you write.
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30 Thine ever.
31 Olive
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33 Have you any of the Montessori books, I’m so interest in the system.
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