| Description | Algiers
9.5.95
Dear Taily, I got your nice first letter at Tlemcen (from algiers) just before leaving, and here, in passing thro', I find the other (of the 2) - thank you for both; of course I like you to "ga-p" telling me all the little things - if has the advantage of a chat in which (here the selfishness of the male comes in) the work is all on one side. Aggrieves me indeed poor Taily to hear of your racking nausem heat headache - and especially that you seem to find no remedy or relief: - I am glad at all events that Gussy was able without bad effects to give a little dinner party; for it allows me to hope that she at least has gathered a little benefit from her outing - I know you will both be pleased to hear that I report really satisfactory about myself. I fully believe that I shall return about four weeks hence quite pat-eed up I know that I have had a wink which I shall have to consider as good as a nod and that henceforth I shall have to be careful -very- (!) and consider that mutty is always hanging about, on the lurk; but for the present very regular attends have gone - I get little the threatening at the proper time but they blow over after a few papers of the prescribed kind and I can _ of any incidental and not frequent _ onslaught in the same way this is more than what hoped for in one month (it is reacts that nices started) An amusing episode happened this morning - when I went to the post office the anpla_e told me in giving me a cataract of letters and newspapers that the Director of the Agence Havas (the prize reuter had told them to ask me particularly to call if I turned up in Algiers - "important" so I went and found a very polite gentleman who said that he had been plied with telegrams from B Reuter (who had alarming accounts of my health) asking him to find out directly I was in Algeria and if my condition was serious to telegraph to him twice a day for the London papers. As I look as fit as a fiddle (having a clean shirt on) he was amused and promised to send a most reassuring wire to a panting London. I have, since found out, thro a letter that I have been reported in one paper to be unable to return to society and my possessions and that the R A is already casting about for a successor !! - oh! The papers - many thanks for the book - _ enough I had a curiosity about that authoress. I've not opened [name] - I feel that he will want _ reading and he shall get it when I return - "but enough"! Which means I have a lot more to write just one line to say know you both written before the 15th will catch me here on my way back - I leave tomorrow morning. Best love to old loony _
With affection Fred
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