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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Most interested to have Robert's definite arrangements [for his work in France with the Friends War Victims Relief Committee]. Very sorry about the Toveys' 'calamity' [Grettie Tovey going into an asylum]; would have been most surprised if they did not know from experience 'how definite a physical illness mental disturbance is' and that the 'most helpful and strong-minded people' can be subject to it; hopes for the best for them both. H[enry] Y[ates] T[hompson] and Dolly are visiting. Was very sorry to finish Aulus Gellius.

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thinks Robert and Elizabeth's decision to send Julian to school is very wise, and 'schools, if well selected, are in these days not places of unhappiness'. Asks Robert to let them know what he himself is doing. Wallington is much changed: the 'great pastures to the North all tuned to arable' and the woods going wild. Is reading Aulus Gellius, who deserves his repute; there is no one like him in Latin prose, though Athenaeus is a little like him in Greek.