ENPages
page_0001
HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE JOHANNESBURG
May: 12: 1902
My dearest Nan
Many thanks for your last interesting letter. I had a good budget on Saturday – from Willie, Walter, Uncle Willie, Uncle Eben [Masterton], Cray-Henderson, Isabel Gathorne-Hardy, & Lady Leconsfield, & little Marshall of Rachan. From the last I received a full account of poor Sir Thomas Carmichael's financial reverses. He is going to leave Castlecraig and take a small house near Edinburgh. Eben wrote me a most amusing letter and I was very glad of
page_0002
the Bird's photographs. The Gathorne- Hardys ask me to shoot with them at Glen Saddell in Cantire [Kintyre] this autumn. Alas! Alas!
H.E. came back from the Cape last week, rather tired & worried. He talked about sending me off to Rhodesia sometime this winter to act as a kind of special commissioner. I leave tomorrow for Natal & then by Friday night I hope to be in Port Elizabeth. I am greatly looking forward to seeing my parents & the Mhor. It will not be long now before the family is re-united,
page_0003
believe me.
Lady Arthur Russell, Gilbert & their Flora & Diana are all up here. They came to lunch with us on Saturday. They are all immensely pleased with themselves & prepare to go on to China & home across Siberia. Did you ever hear of such sportsmen! They have let their London house to the Maharajah of Kuch-Behar for the Coronation.
I am sorry to hear from the Bird that my book is in a hideous cover. I have no luck in bindings. If I wrote a book of hymns, it would be published as a yellow-back.
I hope you have had a good time in Paris. Where do you propose to spend
page_0004
the rest of your time till your parents come home? The Bird will also be an outcast, now that college is over.
I had a letter from the eldest son of Andrew Galloway, saying that his health had broken down & asking me to find him something to do out here. I get dozens of such letters weekly, and it is very difficult to know what to say.
With much love to all
Your affectionate brother
John
