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11/4/17
Dear Mrs. John
I have just got two letters from you numbered 36 and 37: in one you had been most horribly busy during the preceeding week, and said you were sorry not to have written to me: I think it wonderfully nice of you to write at all, and of course felt very conscious stricken at the weeks I've missed in answering your letters: perhaps you meant it as a rebuke for me, if so, it was very subtle.
But then, knowing you, I should not expect you to worry about such round-a-bout methods – I've always found you wonderfully straigtforward.
Your letters were written from some little heathen towns down along the South Coast – how I should have enjoyed being there, and would have disagreed with you about any cruelty in catching fish, they are too cold blooded to feel anything: I am sorry Stella does not like your protegee Stewart Walker, perhaps