1 9 Porchester Place
2 Edgware Rd
3 Ma June 2nd 1920
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5 My darling darling Lucy
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7 I don’t think you could quite understand how I valued your letter.
8It came to me just when I was feeling curiously depressed. It was like
9a dear hand put out me from across the water. You don’t know how it
10cheered me.
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12 I am sailing on the 13th of August when my nephew & his wife sail, as
13I can’t go alone. I’ve taken my passage.
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15 I’m very sorry Mrs Murrays house is not still a boarding house, but
16Ruth Alexander has promised to look out a list of places I can choose
17from when I come. I shall go for the first days to Ursula’s at
18Binzana at Plumstead & later for a few days to my dear sister-in-laws
19who has a cottage near Ursula’s. But I want to find some furnished
20or un-furnished rooms somewhere where I can breathe & settle myself &
21my small belongings there for good, & then I can go & see all my dear
22friends when I’m well enough not to be depressing. If I can’t get
23rooms I must go to a boarding house or hotel. Cap the Cape is not like
24Europe they haven’t introduced the idea of letting ro "apartments"
25there.
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27 I do hope you have quite got over that terrible influenza. The bad
28thing about it is that it so often – almost always weakens the heart,
29 & you are not robust enough to stand weakening. I do hope when I come
30you will be looking quite your old-self, but I fear you will find the
31winter trying.
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33 I had a letter from Mrs Percy Molteno go today in which she says she
34is going out to the Cape when May & Freddie go out. I have not seen
35her since Lucy was here.
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37 Betty is still down in Cornwall. I can’t help feeling a little
38anxious about her, & wish I was able to go down to her just to see how
39she is. I do hope she will come out to the Cape. I think she will when
40we all go. Margarets being there will draw her strongly; but she
41doesn’t like to leave the spot where Alice Greene rests, I think.
42She seems to feel nearer her there you know Lucy, I think that what I
43dread in coming out to South Africa is that I won’t find my brother
44Will here. His was always the first voice I heard when I landed the
45first face that looked smiling in at my cabin, & I’ve got a curious
46feeling as if I ought to see him when I go there. All my life he was
47so good to me, such a strength & help.
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49 It will be very sweet to see your dear Lucy, again. She is such a
50beautifully sincere child & sincerity is after all the greatest of
51virtues.
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53 Good bye dear dear Lucy. Thank you for your letter again & again.
54 Olive
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56 My husband writes me that he will be here about the 5th of July so I
57shall have the joy of seeing him for about a month before I leave. He
58hopes to pay America a visit.
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