and to avoid reading for sometime. 



At present we are in the throes of house cleaning and re - 

 decorating. The house is torn up from end to end. (You observe ^as 

 we now live in a flat I do not say from top to bottom!) Mary would 

 join me in kindest regards to Mrs. Peane and to you did shej^now I 

 were writing. 



Ever yours, 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



arrb r i dge , Ma s s . 



