Wednesday 18th June 1913
The heat wave continues; a crowd is expected at Belsize Grove for tea; Arthur’s brother Tancred is home from Cambridge; the Pater feels the heat:
Arthur to Dollie
Belsize Grove N.W.
Ever so many thanks for your sweet letter which arrived safe this morning. I can picture you before my eyes now in the dress with the mauve spots … I am so glad you are well. I’m awfully envious of your Mater and Sister and Yvonne who live with you all day – every day I don’t see you, every second I am away from you, is time wasted and lost beyond recovery. Thank heavens there is another gone since yesterday. I am a day nearer seeing you again…
Last night I went to Chelsea as usual – the work is very interesting, but it is very hard work. Tancred came last night and slept the night – he took his degree at Cambridge yesterday afternoon. He is looking very fit and is going to Germany and Rome at the end of this year…
Please excuse this paper – I am writing in the garden – this was the best I could find. The children are at the other end with their nurses – they are very sweet. Crowds are coming in to tea to-day I believe…
Pater is in bed to-day – not very well; I think it’s only the effect of his journey. The heat was excessive and he has been doing a lot. The weather here is very hot too; the last two days it has been 81° and 83° in the shade – and the city is sweltering. This evening I am going to Chelsea. Last night I came home on the top of a No2 bus from Victoria to Swiss Cottage – how I longed for you – everywhere swarmed with couples, how I envied them all…
I think the review on the 5th July is to be in full dress, which will rather improve the show. The others are all going out on Saturday night. I shall probably go to Joe and Maggie’s – the others are going to see “Bunty Pulls the Strings”, which we three have already seen… Please thank the Mater and Yvonne for their kind wishes and bear my regards to Sister. Oh well, darling I hope you have a good time at Marly. Take care of yourself, darling…