HG12/12/61

Letter from Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins to his mother Gertrude Mary Longuet-Higgins. Sent from Hotel Kurhaus Valsana, Arosa, Switzerland.

14 Feb 1909

From: 1909 To: 1909

Pleased to hear the invalids are getting better. Majority of visitors out here are here for their own or someone else'e health. Some people one does not know how they can afford to be here. There has been a photographic exhibition in aid of a fund which is secretly adminsitered on recommendation the doctors to assist those who could be cured but do not have the funds to stay. Our young Russian friend took the 1st lansdcape prize and 2nd portrait prize. Mention of various friends/guests, including James Cavendish Bentinck; he and his wife, 3 children and dog all share a room that the landord gave up for them. Improvised 'dumb waiter' created between the balconies of the writer's room and that of their friends two floors above. Writer entered a bobsleigh race and won a little silver cup. (Deails and team members described). Writer was asked to join the choir, but cannot as times of practice do not fit. Played ice hockey one afternoon. Thanks mother for sending newspapers, which other appreciated when writer has finished with them. The last few days Kenneth [Dows?] has been kept in bed, though out on the balcony. There is a gymkhyana this week, the writer is not entering.

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Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude Mary,
Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Dows, Kenneth

family correspondence, Switzerland, photography, tobogganing, sleigh, ice skating, gymkhanas