HG12/12/89

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

9 Jan 1910

From: 1910 To: 1910

Kenneth has had a cold and tonsillitis and staying in bed, but is now much better and up again, and will soon be down to meals in the dining room. He is very pleased with the walking stick which John sent out for the writer to give him for Christmas. Have been practicing in the bob sleigh and entered the novices race, coming second. Mr Watt was brake man, and the fourth member of the 'octopus' crew, with Miss Fitzgibbon, the writer and a fellow called Williams, who has just left Rugby. Encloses photograph which was taken in the first race, when Mr Rowntree is brake man and Mr Watt second. Went to the Morlands on Thursday evening. Mrs Dow would be much obliged if the writer's mother could get the A & N [Army & Navy store] to send out 2 Dundee and 3 Genoa cakes. Last thursday went to a dance at the Grand Hotel with Miss Fitzgibbon. Next Wednesday is a fancy dress affair at the Seehof in aid of the English Church fund. There is to be a cotillion [type od square dance] and the writer is to be one of the leading couples. Mrs Dows is to make the writer into the Mad Hatter and has just gone to town to buy loud check to make trousers from. On Saturday skiied to Maran with Watt and May Fitzgibbon and met others there for lunch. Kenneth and the writer are not reading 'American Revolution' by Sir George [Otto] Trevelyan

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Longuet-Higgins, Gertrude Mary,
Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Dows, Kenneth,
Fitzgibbon,
Watt,
Williams,
Rowntree,
Morland,
Dows,
Fitzgibbon, May

family correspondence, Switzerland, tonsillitis, tobogganing, photographs, cakes, dancing, fancy dress, skiing