I am thinking that you might care to have the Kashmiri photographs which you took when touring about there & sent to your Grannie in 1920.  So I will send them along to you & tucked in with this letter shall be the letter you wrote to her at the time.

I hope you will enjoy looking through them & showing them two Esther - 1920 was the year we came to this home.  We moved to it from Nolanwood on May 31st - what a long time ago & how different is everything now.  Well this old creature still hangs on here & hopes she may not be obliged to clear out, a owing to the cost of living in it in these awful times & it soars up & up whilst incomes do not,  but the reverse - it is such a charming home & I love it dearly with its memories too of happy old days, your old Grannie with Aunt C???  the 1st  year & us sisters and so often various members of the family coming to visit us.  And now in my old age I am ??? glad not to have this ??? of a ???, So here I willingly stay & don't worry!  I'm writing this from my long chair in a sunny & sheltered corner of the terrace on a lovely May afternoon, except for the N.E.  wind which is blowing a bit still, but here I don't feel it & it has gone down considerably since this morning, when even this seat  was too chilly a resting place.  I have to be extra careful at present - an attack of 'flu in early April knocked me down in strength and the picking up process has been rather slow, however it is getting much better now & hope very soon to be up at first marks again. This has been such a cold May, except for a few stray more properly seasonal days but we have had little to complain of at Torquay as what others have suffered in other parts of the country, in the worst week with snow storms, some places. Regular blizzards, even London has a few inches of snow lying on the ground. Of course a good deal of damage was done to gardens by the snow & frosts - poor Margery of Carlisle was one of the sufferers in her garden fruit, vegetables & flowers getting badly touched up.'

Here there was no damage gales, hail & torrents of rain & only very slight frosts. Your Aunt Hilda seems to be most happily and comfortably settled in her new little home at Hythe. Everybody says it is a charming flat & it is so nice that she has a garden with it. Joe is paying her a visit  just now & Margery is following his when she leaves this week.

I hope you are at the beginning of a good winter on the other side of the world & that Esther is keeping very fit now.

Mary Freeman is coming to me again this summer when Miss Maskell is off on a long holiday. I expect her about July 7th for about 7 weeks - they ??? ???!

Best love, dear "other F.E.S." & pass a bit to my unknown niece