FL4651418

29 Novr
1899

Cotmandene,
South Barra.
Melbourne

My dear Mrs Onslow

Very many thanks for your interesting
letter of the 19th telling me of the
military aspirations and cogitations
of your gallant sons and of the
departure of gallant Jack in the
Langton Grange. The boor that
gets in his way will not forget
what the arm of an Australian
can do. Of course all could not
go, and as for John, the head
of the house, it could hardly be
thought of; eminently useful
as he might have been in the
Transvaal he has such claims
upon him in his native land
that they could not have been
otherwise than paramount,