19 Porchester Place
2Edgware Rd
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4Aug 29th 1919
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6Dear Joan
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8I hope you are not doing too much. Exercise is very good but you
9mustn’t let yourself get tired or worried about anything – just
10let the house go for the present. I have been looking up in both my
11maps for Royal Avenue but can’t find it. I do hope its some where
12close to a bus. What is it near? Is it just off Eaton Sq?
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14Ursula is so happy with her baby. I’ve never seen any woman any
15where so absorbed in her child, & rejoicing so over it. And it was the
16last thing one would have expected! It is almost comic. She does every
17thing for him her self.
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19I do hope you’ll be easy to get at when you come. It will be so
20lovely to see you.
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22I’ve just seen General Botha’s death in the papers. There’s
23something sad when the old land marks disappear one by one.
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25Did I tell you my nephew Olivers wife is expecting a little one in
26February. Oh I hope it will be a better happier world these little
27ones will come into.
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29I’ve just had a long letter from my dear friend Lady Constance
30Lytton. I don’t know if you knew her in the suffrage days. She’s
31one of the most beautiful women souls the Gods ever made. She has to
32undergo a great operation in two months. For 25 years she & her cousin
33Adela Smith have been my two closest friends. In this dark time one
34clings so to the thought of these great self-less souls; there’s
35nothing in life matters much but love.
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37Good bye dear. My love to John. I hope by the time the cold dark
38winter days come he will be able to have a motor car. That long ride
39in the motor-bike to & from his work seems to me the only drawback in
40your ideal home It must have been beautiful there this summer.
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42Good bye Love to John
43Your small Aunt
44Olive