BR TO ALYS RUSSELL, [31 JULY 1908]
BRACERS 21047. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Taunton
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Bagley Wood,
Oxford.
Friday 2 p.m.

Dearest Alys

In case thee reaches Samton before me, this is merely to say I shall arrive there (D.V.) between 3 and 5 tomorrow afternoon. I expect to sleep tonight at Bampton; last night I slept at Glastonbury, and the night before at Amesbury. I have had glorious weather, and no mishaps till I was close to Taunton this morning, when a woman who would keep to the right ran into my bicycle and buckled the front wheel, so that I had to hail a passing cart and drive into Taunton and have a new rim put on, which is now being done. I would have made the woman pay, but she was obviously not well off.

I would have written to Cardiff but I didn’t know thy address there. I was much interested in thy Newnham news. The caravan seems to have had a grand time.

Thine aff
Bertie.