Reference
HG12/9/11a-b
Title
To Henry Longuet-Higgins, from Mother, Anne Higgins, 79 Bedford Street
Date free text
31 Mar 1903
Production date
From: 1903 To: 1903
Scope and Content
Sends receipt for money. Discusses garden. Big gale day before yesterday and two shocks of an earthquake at Seaforth. Has not
heard of Horace since March. "We got a sight of B.P when we were down town on Saturday... He looked quite well & has evidently quite recovered from his starving at Mafeking..". " Dr. W. is off to Spain for a month when the medical Assoc. meets at Madrid. The ? association is to meet in Rhodesia in 1905 by which time the railway to Zambia will be finished and a hotel built close to the Victoria Falls." Hope Gertrude has had good news of Mrs Johnson and that Edith is better. Family mangaging fairly well with only one maid and a charwoman, "and I am very weary of it. It seems so impossible to get two at this time". Reciept enclosed
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