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Broadstone, Wi<mborne>

December 14 <1905>¹

My dear Fred²

As the post goes [MS burned] (from Dartmouth) I send you a <few> lines though I have really noth<ing> fresh to say, except that I receive<d> yours of Nov^r. 25th. chiefly about ghosts at Sta. Catalina but also [MS burned] further promising accounts of that [MS burned] from Captn Boynton.³ I am really [MS burned] it will prove a second "Ega" or St. P[MS burned] Bates⁴ said he could not have exhausted [MS burned] five years. The "lagoons" are promising, for [MS burned] the "thousands" of butterflies seen in such places [MS burned] usually of very few species — Callidryas &c. — are often rare Papilios and many others [MS burned] them, while among the debris drifted up [MS burned] wind are often swarms of Carabidae & others [MS burned] I do not think you have told me what [MS burned] but I presume gold, which I am [MS burned] revolutions in will lead [MS burned] times will [MS burned] [2] [MS burned] than a mere agricultural colony [MS burned] near an early Spanish settlement with [MS burned]astery promises well for paths &c. and the [MS burned]ity of Indian Villages which I hope have [MS burned] been driven away by the mines &c. I hope [MS burned] are outcrops of rock, as that is often frequented [MS burned] [illeg.] butterflies — small streams in the [MS burned]st with bits of sandy beaches I have seen [MS burned] they are not only most delightful but are [MS burned] collecting places. Here, the unusually dry [MS burned] summer has been followed by a very wet foggy winter, We hardly see the sun more <than> one or two days a week and there are <almo>st perpetual fogs which make me long <to be> with you in the sunny glades of S. Catalina. <Last> week the great event at last occurred — [MS burned]’s have resigned and the Liberals are [MS burned] Campbell-Bannerman is Prime Minister [MS burned] <cert>ainly chosen a good government [MS burned] John Burns and Lloyd-George [MS burned] Commons [MS burned] [3] which must imply that he will [MS burned] and that something will now be [MS burned] the workers and the starving millio<ns.> Others are John Morley, Mr. Bryce and [MS burned] Carrington, the latter the most libera<l> landlord in England who is gradua<lly> letting all his estates in Buckin<g>ham<shire> and Lincolnshire &c in small hold<ings> to labourers and mechanics at far[MS burned] rents. Unfortunately there are st<ill> too many lawyers and landlords in[MS burned] Government, & will be in parliam<ent,> to do any really great and just w[MS burned] but that is really the people's own [MS burned] and till they are educated to see [MS burned] own interests — which ^are coincident [MS burned] the general interest — nothing v[MS burned] can be done. In conclusion [MS burned] anything had of Cap^t Boynt<on> [MS burned] it yourself. And so f [MS burned] present, from [MS burned]