BR TO ALYS RUSSELL, [11 AUG. 1909]
BRACERS 21089. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Bozen
Wednesday

Dearest Alys

Thanks for letters etc. which I found on arriving here this morning. I was very glad of the Limehouse speech, which seems excellent. Helen Verrall seems a good idea, if available.

I received by a mistake of the Post Office a £5 note addressed to Leonard J. Russell, Poste Restante, Innsbruck. I have written to Innsbruch and to the address the £5 came from, telling him to apply to thee for the money, as I have no fixed plans, and his address is doubtful, since he probably didn’t stay in Innsbruck.

This place is hot, and full of flowers and fruit — very pleasant, in spite of thundershowers. It is delicious to get into clean clothes and out of knickerbockers and heavy boots. We go on tomorrow, going eastward and returning to Trient. Thence we shall probably go westward and return to the Lake of Garda.

I wish some suitable job could be found for MacLauchlin — his case is very hard.

It is funny Margerie Eckhard and Matty Snow getting Fourths.

“Elicitating” is not a word!

Thine aff.
Bertie.