| Description | Letter from Amelia Nyasa Laws, Bergstrasse 33, Dresden, Germany, to her relatives, thanking for Edinburgh and African letters; Christmas entertainment for staff; illness of Mrs. Heron; Miss MacInnes's trouble with her student lodgers; news of personnel at the Pontresina mission, held at Crieff; Mr. Tait's condemnation of girls who exceed their dress allowance, probably referring to his daughter Dorothy; Amelia put a stop to Dorothy's spending in St. Moritz; advice on allowances to girls; Dorothy will not make a good wife, though it is her aim to marry; Frau Wedekind has retired from the opera and teaches, but only for the hours her children are at school; death of Mr. Minto at Cannes from a chill on the kidneys; Mrs. Minto has never fully recovered from typhoid and will now be free to leave Cannes for lighter duties elsewhere; serious illness of Mrs. Evans with influenza; Uncle working too hard as usual; showing tourists round archaeological sites in Rome as favours to neighbours; weekday meetings in Rome are a waste of time as the tourists have such little time to go to them; Mr. Sutherland is better; he plans to go to Naples with the Munro Gibsons, but will probably find himself arranging everything for them; death of Lorrimers' son in accidental explosion of cartridge; Mme. Poitet has been bothering Uncle about business affairs; Beatrice Genetouse is in a clinic for fistula; eager to leave her husband, a wise step, despite Uncle's advice to the contrary; Uncle to try to find a place for Oscar in Paris; Aunt recommends Horne's Pekoe Buds, a good tea. |