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Missus—   This afternoon Mr Goodhart suddenly appeared at the studio - is back in Cambridge for a day or two - Sat and talked while I cleaned up my pastels—  Is a lovely fellow - like all English men seems not quite grown up but shyness mixed with cleverness is particularly charming—  
Last week Maud had a jolly little dinner - party - May & me - Mr Langley Mr Duff and Prof J.J. Thompson - the youngest professor in the College—  George was away, all the men clever and interesting and we had "fine sport" as Sallie would say—  Prof Thompson straightway asked us to tea in his rooms for Sunday evening before chapel—  Mr Langley had already asked us to lunch with him - and I had another invite to lunch besides with the Protheros—  (Mr P. tutor of Kings) 


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Ashton House—
July 22d [[archival note:]] [1889]

Dear Grandma—

I wonder if this is grilling weather with you—  We would'nt mind a fire tonight though we dont need one—  I am looking now for a letter from Kaatskill and hope that you will not each think the other is "writing to Leilie" and I shall fall between these stools—   I miss my boy's letters but they kept it up a good while and I suppose - I ought not to complain - I did think of making this a letter to them but had so much to say to the big people and not time nor eyesight for two letters. Today, I wrote to Henderson Bros Glasgow to engage our passage for the 22d of August—  The 9" [[9th]] was'nt possible since I lost 

Transcription Notes:
* George Walter Prothero (1848-1922) - history tutor at King’s College, Cambridge from 1876, and university lecturer in history from 1884.