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Government House.
Ottawa.

25th May, 1936.

Dear Caroline

I am writing early in the week, for we are going on tour
tonight to Western Ontario, and will not be back until Saturday
evening. We are enormously looking forward to your arrival on the
25th June. We shall be in Quebec until about the 10th July; then
you will come on tour with us in the Maritimes, which will be very
pleasant. We go West about August 6th.

I have not much further news. My fly bites have abated,
and I looked fairly respectable when I addressed the Royal Society
on Friday night.

We had a very pleasant tea-party with the Prime Minister
at his country house on Saturday, and a long walk. We have the
Arthur Murrays (Elibank's brother) here for a few days, and for the
weekend we had a most delightful French-Canadian couple in big business, and
this forms a most valuable trait d'union.

My mother is really wonderful, and I think is enjoying
herself enormously. Nan is too thin, and I am going to have her
veted by the doctor today. I think she may have too low a blood
pressure.

Alastair has got a young Eton friend, called Alastair
Campbell, coming to stay with us, and is off to meet him in Montreal
today. The weather is warm, but with a pleasant wind, which keeps