Rounton Grange Sep 13 Dearest Mother. It's a horrible bore for you to have to go to London. After consultation with Mrs S. and Mrs G. Nellie has gone to 95. I am just off to the Shaw Stewarts and devoutly wishing that I were not going. I send you 2 library books, not knowing what you want done with them. You may want some to change in London.
And what do you think of the North Pole? I don't believe in Cook but I like him better than Peary - no, I don't know that there is much to choose. They are both turgid bombastic Americans. I can't help being persuaded that if one of us had found the N.P. he would not have patted it on the back so much. All that bombastic tosh about nailing the naval ensign (which apparently doesn't exist) to it and so forth is more than the English mind can away with. Your affectionate daughter Gertrude