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- 16 Oct 1925 (Creation)
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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Thanks his father for the 'interesting speech by McElroy, which he now returns; it is a 'remarkable tribute to the permanent effectiveness' of The American Revolution, and to its continued vitality: a book that is 'so much alive after twenty five years is not likely to grow old for a long time yet'.
He and Bessie are glad to hear that his mother has recovered quickly from her journey. The weather has worsened today, but they have had 'beautiful autumn days' for weeks. Bessie is reading aloud a translation of Herodotus, 'not a bad one, in the Loeb Classics'; since she does not know Greek she has not read it before, 'a pleasure long deferred'. They are just reaching the 'story of the master thief in book two, which might come out of the Arabian Nights'.