Sent from 30 Lyndhurst Road, London. Dorothy writes that she hopes he is having a good time in spite of the rain he spoke of in his card to Carl [Sherrington, son of Charles]; Carl is not well today, he has tummy ache and is sick, but his nurse is nice; Auntie Ethel [Sherrington] left so they were trying to cheer Carl up; they had broken up at school [King Alfred School at 24 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, 31 pupils] and Mr Russell [John Russell, Headmaster, 1901-20] told them their exam results, hers were - Geography 81% (top), Latin 29/40 (top), Grammar 85% (joint top with Marnham and Sylvia), Botany top (forgotten mark), French 67% (third), History 47% (second), Cambridge 42% (third), Algebra 28% (top) Geometry 36% (third), Physics 36%, Heat 35%, and Chemistry 53%; she didn’t take the Dictation or Composition exams but is sure she would have passed; Mr Russell did not count her arithmetic exam as she was really too ill to do it (which he knew because it was so bad and Mr Earle said she should have done better); overall she got 50% or better in 8 out of 11 subjects, Sylvia was top of the class, Lewis Challis was the only leaver this term and had gone to live at Barnet.

She and Mother [Lizzie Rose] planned to go to [Letchworth] Garden City today but can’t because Carl is ill; Mr Russell wanted to borrow their Yeats for Mrs Hudson but it was already lent; she took Carl and Nurse for walk yesterday, she went to the Radfords whilst Carl and Nurse went down to Mrs Turner; Margaret [Radford] was much better; hailstorms woke Carl in night and he thought it was fire engines (big hailstones 1 inch deep), whilst she was at the door the Ferrantis went to theirs and they had a hail-ball fight but now it was sunny; and the man who offered them puppies 3 weeks ago had come again with a handsome strong 1 year-old Irish Terrier, they were going to try it for a week but think it is too old to love them as dear old Rudy did.

She asks him to keep the “a percevoir” stamp for her if the letter is overweight, and tells him that Oliver Thorny’s knee is worse than they thought. He can only walk one hour so he would not go to Norfolk with Maitland [Radford] as he thinks he would be boring for Maitland. [This is Oliver Thornycroft, whom Dorothy later married]. She also writes that Sylvia is absent from school as she lost an uncle, asks him to send love to Hilda if he sees her, and says she is going to the Niemeyers’ on Saturday and bringing back Susy.