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8, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W. - Asks if Elizabeth would like Booa [Mary Prestwich] to come to her next Thursday, which she could manage quite well, staying the night and returning next day. If this does not suit, Booa can come later. Letter originally enclosed a note from Minna Duckworth, whom Elizabeth saw at 'Aunt Harries's' [?]; thinks she is deaf and did not hear Elizabeth's name. Asks if she would like a bed on Monday night, though it would not be a comfortable one and there is no room for Robert. Goes to Birmingham on Tuesday and will be 'very busy till the meetings are over'. Cannot ask her on Saturday as she is engaged all day; even if she does not stay the night, hopes to see her at lunch or tea on Monday.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Is sending a copy of his latest play [The Pterodamozels], a 'sort of continuation' of his New Parsifal; it is 'concerned with politics, as that was with aesthetics'. His mother will probably not 'sympathise altogether with all that is implied', but hopes that she will at least find it 'ends good-humouredly'.

Bessie thanks her for her 'kind letter' and will write soon. Miss Colley [the new governess] came on Monday and seems to be getting on well with Julian; she 'seems quite a nice girl', and he expects will suit them very well. Bessie is fairly well; she has 'just gone to the kitchen to knead the bread'.

Some chance of Robert's 'Krishna play [The Pearl Tree] being acted soon in London, probably 'in a small way'; expects they 'won't do it as [he] should like it, but there can be no harm in letting them try'. Will soon send his father a translation of part of Lucretius, which 'Fry is printing' for him [at the Omega Workshops].

The weather is currently 'very pleasant'; the potatoes and raspberries in their garden are doing well, but the 'apples and plums are a failure this year'. Has had a letter [19/96] from a relative 'who calls herself cousin Minna (Duckworth)'; he 'really cannot remember about her, though no doubt... ought to'. Unsure how she can be 'Minna' if her initials are 'S. O.'. Is 'ashamed to say' that he is 'very bad at remembering about my relatives'.

Lane End, Bank, Lyndhurst. - 'Cousin Robert''s booklet ["The Pterodamozels"?] 'sounds most original'; requests two copies and encloses payment. Wishes that they could meet, but never knows when he is in London; would like to know how Julian is doing, and sends regards to Mrs Trevelyan. The Trevelyans 'seem to have left the home' where she last saw them. Adds a postscript saying that she will be here for only another fortnight, but will return in October.