MY FAMILY 



home and I had to go to bed for several days. I have 

 several times been concussed. Once out hunting 

 with the Cottesmore. They v^^ent away on the far 

 side of Ouston Wood, and going down the first 

 field my horse put his foot in a hole, and when I 

 came round I found I was in a bed at Somerby. 



My eldest brother, Frank, had two sons and a 

 daughter. The eldest son was a fine fellow. Very 

 good looking, a good rider and polo player, but he 

 had an incurable disease and died when he was 

 about 38. He married a daughter of Mr. Hames of 

 Somerby. They have a daughter Elizabeth and now 

 live at Ashwell. My brother's second son was 

 killed in a motor accident in America. The 

 daughter Betty was a charming girl. She married 

 a very nice fellow from Kansas City. Betty used 

 often to come and stay with us, and the husband 

 would come over too. He was very keen on 

 fiying, and would hire a plane over here and fly 

 about. 



The first time I went up I had been playing polo 

 at Rugby and he flew me home. I think I must 

 have been very frightened, as I never went up again. 

 I was to have flown home once from Biarritz, but 

 I really was glad when the pilot refused to go up 

 as the visibility was bad. 



To return to my niece and her husband. She, 

 as I said, stayed a good deal with us, but after her 

 last visit she returned to America and her husband 

 met her in New York to fly home to Kansas City. 



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