[Grace Toll Hall, Scripps College, Claremont]
You will have, I hope, some faint idea of my rejoicing over receiving your long letter of the 23d August. IHale, Emilycorrespondence with TSE;w3EH learns to type;f2 congratulate you upon your rapid mastery of the machine (though it made you say that you laid in the sun), and so long as the typewriter is less painful than writing AND provided that when you type you write really long letters, I shall not repine so much over the absence of the beloved scrawl. I am terribly distressed to hear of all the complications of poisoning or whatever it is. I don’t believe that this toxin, in spite of teeth, would have got hold of you if you had not been very run down – so I worry about the coming winter. Thatappearance (TSE's)baldness;b6may require wig;a9, they all say, was the reason for the success of whatever attacked my hair – which I begin to fear I shall never get back – I shall be grateful if I do not go so bald as to have to wear a Wigg – I am glad you have not got that malady anyhow.
IHale, Emilybirthdays, presents and love-tokens;w2EH bought typewriter;a8 am glad that the machine is useful now. If I did leave on the price mark that doesn’t matter, for it is only a Practical present. I shd. like always to make you presents in pairs: one Practical and one Unpractical.
This can only be a short letter, because I am not settled until the 20th, and when one is visiting one has not much time to oneself. IWoolfs, theamazed by TSE's appearance;b4 have just been to the Woolfs, who were amazed at my healthy looks, better than they remember me, andHutchinsons, the;a5 [sc. as] also were the Hutchinsons who turned up there for tea. TheHutchinson, Barbaraher engagement to Victor Rothschild;a2 latterRothschild, Victordisapproved of by parents-in-law;a1 are depressed because their daughter, whom I used to carry about on my back years ago, is going to marry a Rothschild and join the Jewish Church.1 But it would be worse if he didn’t belong to any Church at all, I think. I was very much touched by the fact that they seemed really pleased to see me again: it always comes as a surprise to find that people really like one. My visit to Wales was a great success, and has done more for my health than any part of the summer. I shall write at much greater length upon my return, and reply to your letter. You must report to me the progress of your fingers. I only wish I could kiss them.
1.TheRothschild, Victor Hutchinsons’ daughter Barbara was engaged to be married, on 28 Dec. 1933, to Victor Rothschild (1910–90), who would become a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1935–9. In 1937 he was to succeed his uncle as 3rd Baron Rothschild.
1.TheRothschild, Victor Hutchinsons’ daughter Barbara was engaged to be married, on 28 Dec. 1933, to Victor Rothschild (1910–90), who would become a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1935–9. In 1937 he was to succeed his uncle as 3rd Baron Rothschild.