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Written from Beaudesert Park, Henley-in-Arden, shortly after Lilian had visited. Thanking Lilian for honey and ‘Nada the Lily’ [book by Henry Rider Haggard]; wondering if Bumpus’ [a shop] had managed to get ‘She’ [book by Henry Rider Haggard]; sending news of other boys at the school (a birthday and illnesses); discussing the weather, examinations and golf. John also asked after [Herbert Pendlebury], Nanny, the birds, cat and Dicky [dog]; mentions Uncle Powell; asks if she had heard anything about Bligh or Mr Webb (a friend of Sir Philip) who had “helped him to save us at Malvern the year before last”; and wondered if they would go to Bradford to see aunt Violet and Bella in the holidays. |
