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The Shiffolds. - He and Bessie are sorry to hear his father has rheumatism again, and hope he has now recovered: it was an. 'unlucky ending to his skating'. Now 'getting on for thirty years' since Robert fell on the pond at Welcombe and cut his hand open with his skate. Is sorry his mother will not now be able to visit this week. Will go to London on Monday, and start for La Croix next morning, 'going straight through'. Bessie and the baby are well, and the journey to London went 'quite well, though it was not a very pleasant day'. Is sending back a letter of Aunt Annie's; apologies for keeping it 'too long'. Will write again soon before he goes abroad. They had a 'pleasant visit' last weekend from Tom Spring Rice.

The Old Hotel, Dungeon Ghyll, Langdale, Nr. Ambleside. - Bob and Roger [Fry] will be pleased that a 'memorial [memorandum] about Finland" which is soon to be sent to the Duma [Russian Parliament] has been much signed by British MPs. Has had a long talk with Cecil Spring Rice, the British minister at Stockholm - not [his relative] Tom - who knows about the affair as the 'Swedes are so deeply interested'. There is some hope that the 'change may be of a more limited character than is threatened'.