Re Beacon Hill School and Telegraph House:

BR acknowledges receiving Dora's letter of September 5th and writes, "I gather you have not yet made up your mind as to whether you wish to close at Xmas or not. I must ask you to make up your mind within the next few days, if you wish your tenancy to stop some time between Xmas and Easter. This is for two reasons: the children's schooling and the fact that there is a lady who wishes to buy T.H. and I want to know what to say to her. Also I want to know when T.H. will be vacant, so as to know what to say to this hotel, where I had agreed to stay till July; if I can't dispose of T.H. I shall live there."

BR tells Dora that should she decide to give up the school at Christmas there will be no time to look at Swiss schools. He thinks it would be good for John and Kate to go to Switzerland the following autumn, but any sooner would be impossible, leaving Dartington as their only option, or a male tutor at Telegraph House.