It is cold, he has fuel only for one fire, in his library. Palestine too must be cold at the present time. The whole world appears to be in ferment, things are not any better than during the war. Tradesmen are behaving abysmally. He thinks war will continue as a matter of class against class. He is kept up to date on the unrest in Egypt by an Armenian assistant. He thinks the English will only succeed in the East once they recognise the importance of conversing in the native language, he has been drumming this into Curzon and Bryce.
As soon as the weather warms he will get back into the studio. Family news, he feels neglected by most of his children and wishes that
Fred lived somewhere warmer than Norwich.