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mail the other night, 3 home letters, and one from Radcliffe from "Camp Hoshsangabad-India"—  He did not get out there in time to join the Blk Mountain Expedition - at which he was much disappointed—  He was "laid up for the last fortnight—  I had a bad fall out pig sticking and smashed a collar bone and two right ribs - I got mixed up with a wild boar at the edge of a Mullah, and in the battle and confusion we all went over the brink, with the result that my poor horse was killed dead, that I was pretty well jellified, and that the boar, the author of all the mischief went off with my spear sticking in him"  I am writing now with the paper pinned onto a drawing board which my [[?]] has propped up on my bedstand." 
"I was sent into Hospital at Lucknow till I was fit to travel in a [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] dhoolie and yesterday I came out in one of these luxurious vehicles to join my Reg't again"  Notwithstanding all this he says later on - "At the

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end of February I am going into the Nagpore [[Nagpur]] districts with my brother and Lord Clanboye [[Claneboye]], Lord Dufferin's son, to shoot tigers and bison" Is'nt that English?

I think it was 'orful dull" in you not to know what I meant when I said Jean climbed 450 stairs to bring us our dinner.  I meant that he climbed our four flights 6 times.    The studio does not open on the street though it is Rez de Chaussée  You have to go through a house and cross a small garden to get to it. I very seldom have any "gentlemen visitors" except Tuesdays and May is always there with me—  And any way such visitors as Mrs Greene Aunt Sarah and Mrs Conant have already established my reputation with my fat Conciergess [[Concierges]] who loves us for ourselves to begin with—

We had a nice letter from Miss Powell the other day in which she warned us of the revolution we are going 

Transcription Notes:
* Hoshangabad is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. * Dhooli = a simple litter, often used in India to transport sick or wounded persons. * Nagpur district is a district in the Maharashtra state in central India. * Baron Dufferin and Claneboye is a title in the Peerage of Ireland in County Down, Northern Ireland. * Rez de Chaussee = the ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it.