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I haven't very much news this week. I
have had a quiet but busy time, but my
work now is much more leisurely and dignified –
drafting Ordinances & Proclamations and preparing
financial schemes with H.E. – than the awful
grind I had before. I am extremely well and
the weather is a cool clear autumn variety.
I am not quite sure what will be the
date of my homecoming – either the beginning or
the end of August, I think.

It is Easter & Hugh Wyndham is
in Pretoria. Mrs Mackenzie, our Scots housekeeper,
came to me & said that she felt just like a
Roman Catholic, not having been to church since