Dora acknowledges receipt of BR's letter and cable. "It is lovely of you to write as you do about it. But o I do wish it were your baby, because you also ought to have more children." She updates him on the children and her health and is looking forward to him coming home in 3 weeks. She speculates on nature versus nurture.

A note is stapled to the envelope and typed on Edith Russell's typewriter: "D. wishes it were my baby (6 lines from end). 29 Nov. 1929".