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Weym^th
Wednesday

My dear Henry

A happy New Year must be wafted to you on the 1^st January – in the true old fashion! – although on Friday we hope to do be with you and express all that we would say in a much more substantial manner. I dare say that neither you nor Ela ¹ will be otherwise than pleased to get us back again.

Thank you for both your letters. I think the case you enclose from M^r West Awdry ² appears really deserving of aid, if I can give it – but there is time to think it over deliberately between this and April – Are we not lucky in our weather? & especially as regards our journey home on Friday, for not only is the frost departed, but the change is really astonishing in mid winter to the temperature of a mild spring day. Mamie ³ has gone out for a turn before our early dinner & I expect she is finding it quite pleasant.

I am writing a line to Ela & have enclosed a letter from Wilkins rec^d this morning. –

Charles ⁴ thinks M^r Roach ⁵ will scarcely carry out his idea of running out to Weymouth, because the trains appear next to impossible –

Your affectionate
Constance