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I started off with the feeling that for modern
sociological & criminal-legal students Hume is the
real beginning & that what lies behind is antiquarian.
All the same I am going to go through the Books
of Adjournal (which I can read fairly well) from
the end of Pitcairn (1624) to the Restoration & see
if I can find anything of interest for publication by the Society. Helen, followed by
Nina, both have had measles, the latter badly.
She will go to - Southport! - on Wednesday
with the other twin and Margaret Broadhurst
a cousin of ours who has been ordered there by the
doctor. I am off to Abbey St Bathans to feel
my feet after this calamity. Otherwise I am very
well & so is Isabella & that's a' aboot hir.
Nina is much better, but has to ca' canny.

How you set my imagination roaming!
You will defeat those skis & will cover miles
& miles in a very short time. As for Alastair,
he will [be] competing in the jumping & long distance
treks in no time. I daresay our Scotland is
more like Ontario than usual. It has been a real
hard winter & if I were a man of leisure
the ice & snow would have tempted me. But
being in all the best part of the day & never