1Telephone: 3675 Kensington.
2Telegrams: Apartment, London.
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4Kensington Palace Mansions & Hotel
5De Vere Gardens, W.
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8 My dear Laddie
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10 Of course it wouldn’t matter to me how our boy was dressed, if he
11only came in feathers & warpaint like a red-Indian what difference
12would it make; its his dear face I care for. Clothes are nothing.
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14 I hope you will have a good time with him on Sunday.
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16 Good bye dear. I’m a stone broke old thing.
17 Ol.
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19 Have you read a book the "Hapsburg Monarchy" by Henry Wickham Steed Of
20all the Books I have read on Austria & modern diplomacy it is the most
21solid & illuminating sacrificed in the game of Empire Dynastic rule
22(as in Austria) or for the sheer pleasure of winning in the game! The
23book was published last year, & throws a wonderful light on the morals!
24 of diplomacy & the power of the Jews.
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26 Another interesting but quite inferior book is "Men round the Kaiser".
27It’s just a popular 2/- book but not so bad.
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29 I am not a lover of war; but give me the soldier every time. Diplomacy
30as carried on in the past & present is Hell twice over. It is a game
31of chess played between rulers, in which the peoples & their good &
32happiness are pawns
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34 I am going to see a doctor Adela has told me of tomorrow. I’ve no
35faith in them, but the time comes, as Ettie said, when one seeks help
36from them though one has no faith, - in despair.
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38 Cron tells me Bill is waiting for you to come out to join his regiment
39– so I’m thankful you are not going.
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