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- 19 February 1923 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Letter to Ruth Mallory, from ‘Harvard Club’ [letterhead]
Had received her letter with news of Arthur’s second operation. Comments on the conference she had attended and gives his thoughts on prayer. She is good to be anxious about the purchase of the car and asks her not to sell it before he returned home.
Sets out his future plans for lectures – Boston, a school in Massachusetts, a dinner party in his honour given by American members of the Alpine Club in Boston, lectures at the Harvard Union and in Philadelphia, with a visit to the University Museum and a club in Toledo. Hopes for more dates but he hadn’t made much money so far.
He had been staying for the weekend with a climber called Schwab and his rather depressing wife. It was cold and they had only managed an hours walk and he felt ill. Complains about his hotel rooms but he wasn’t in them much as he had many social engagements and was trying to promote his lectures.
He was much touched by what she said about the future and that she had wonderful courage.
He would write to Evelyn [wife of Arthur Clutton-Brock] shortly. Asks her to pass on his love to them both.