Item 92 - Letter from Caroline Trevelyan to Elizabeth Trevelyan

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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Sorry that Julian is not gaining weight; he may do better with the 'non-peptonized milk'. Glad that Elizabeth is going away for a while, though understands she cannot go far from home. Robert is having marvellous weather. She is quite well now, and happy to be 'very quiet'; Mary's children are coming around 20 July; she joins them on the 25th and they go to Cambo a few days later. Sends a jacket for Julian and will make a larger one for autumn if Elizabeth tells her the size. Glad Mrs Catt is improving. There is much rebuilding going on at the Portico, to give 'the young men [gardeners?]' a sitting and bed room and Mrs Davidson a back kitchen, plus 'better sanitary arrangements, which will not be finished for some time; Gussie [Enticknap] can therefore not be taken on for a while. The W.L.F. [Women's Liberal Federation] went well on the whole; Mary 'thought Lady C. [the Countess of Carlisle?] lost her temper too much' but 'the northern delegates were delighted with her'. Sir George is 'no worse for his expedition & was glad he went'; at least a hundred and fifty PCs were sworn in.