My dear Father,

The beastly horse chestnut roots havn’t acted at all well: most havn’t curved at all & only one or two away from the cuts & one or two in directions having no relation to the cut, i e not away or towards²

There is Oxalis tropœoloides come up—& Trifolium subter which I will observe³

I have had a good case with geranium leaves 5 cut leaves—gave up $\frac{3}{70}$ grain (3 milligrams) while the control water had nothing appreciable. The residue dissolved again was strongly alkaline. The fluid I put the leaves in was 30cc & that was perceptibly alkaline to litmus tho’ faintly so.⁴

I brought Ubbadubba an apron from Idy, & a noahs ark which he likes very much—when he had played a bit down here he took it up to Nanna in great excitement saying to himself “2 pink piggy & 2 dark tina”⁵

I hope you are having a good time— I put a pamphlet from Shampton inside Oscar Schmidt—it seems a good example of a devil’s flower garden—⁶

If you want yr Daily News I would suggest that a straight line drawn between Bryanston & New Quebec S^t doesn’t pass through Down⁷

Yr affec | F. D.