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LONDON, August 9th 1900
S.E.

Beatrice Spencer
Dear Miss Barry,

You said you would sometimes like to hear how I was getting
along, didn't you, so that must be my apology for inflicting a letter upon
you. I have been going to write ever since I came back, but I am such a
very busy person and the spare moment never seems to arrive. I hope you will
not mind my writing on the typewriter for it is so much quicker than the
good old pen. I have been on the verge of breaking down once or twice
again, but it hasn't come off yet. Just now is a very hard time for me,
for half the staff are holiday making, my employer amongst them, and I am
left in sole charge of everything and everybody. It is a responsibility
that always weighs me down a good deal.
What a dreadful holiday we have just had, it poured with rain in London
from morning till night. But my brain felt so addled that I felt I must
have fresh air at any cost, so I spent the greater part of the day inHyde Park and neighbourhood, and had it well nigh to myself. I wonder if
you know my dear old Hyde Park very well. I don't think there is anything
like it anywhere, one can almost lose themselves. And then there are the
beautiful Kensington Gardens; and what I like best of all is that they belong
to me and much as to any one. I had some lunch outside a pretty little tea
place there, and one or two fat little sparrows came to keep me company, so
of course I gave them come of my lunch, and in some mysterious way it came
to the knowledge of all the fat little sparrows in the park that there were
crumbs being given away for the asking, and hundreds flocked round me, on the
tables, chairs, everywhere. It was the very prettiest sight I have ever seen
and I wish you could have seen it too; and I had it all to my very own self.
I went on to Kensington Palace after, and spent an hour there. It is
wonderfully interesting, and such a pity that there should be such a lovely
home untenanted. It is a place to think and dream in.
Now the factory keeper wants to be off home so I must not keep him any
longer.

I just want to thank you very, very much indeed for your great kindnes 
to me; will you please tell Dr Blackwell too how I shall always store up
the pleasant memories I have of her wonderful kindness to a perfect stranger,
and how proud I am that I have had the opportunity of knowing and talking 
with her. And I want to say too that if at any time I can be of use to you
or Dr Blackwell in doing any commission whatever in London for you, you have
only to command and I shall only be too happy.
When you see Miss Jebb please remember me to her, and tell her that she
is also in my treasure house of memories, and I do earnestly hope that at
some future time I shall have the happiness of seeing you all again.
I hope you both keep well.
Faithfully yours,
Beatrice Spencer"Hillside."
6 Bromar Road.
Denmark Park
SE
New Year's Day 1901.
To wish you & Dr. Blackwell
Health and Happiness in 
this New Year.
I sincerely hope Dr. 
Blackwell is still strong
and well as when I saw
her.
Yours faithfully.
A Beatrice SpencerA. Beatrice Spence