FL4651430

Cotmandene
South Yarra
Melbourne

10 August 1900

My dear Mrs Onslow,

I have left your kind letter of
11th July too long unanswered, and
can only plead that a prostrating
attack of lumbago added to my
rheumatico gouties &c &c ailments has
almost made writing impossible.
Yesterday however the rubber who
used to iron me with a smoothing
iron got his congé, and your letter
shall reproach me no more.

It was greatly kind of you to
preface your letter with the telegram
of "Jack walking into the office quite
well." I gave faint but hearty
three cheers for him and all of you
when I read that. I agree with
you that Jack is not the man to
quit the plough while he can hold the handle