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Alexandria Oct 1 Dearest Father. I came here yesterday to see Sir Milne Cheetham (who is in charge) and the Arab Bureau people, and I'm going back to Cairo tonight. There's a mail tomorrow so I'll send you an additional line - additional to my other letter.
It's the strike which chiefly preoccupies me I need not tell you. I do long for news of you, but if there had been anything special to say, you would have found out where to telegraph to me. The India Office would always know, as you know. You must be terribly busy. I wonder if all the works have stopped and how Middlesbrough is being fed. Oh dear, I wish I knew what is happening to you.
But there! I don't, and Reuter doesn't mention important matters of that kind.
I think I shall go to Jerusalem [(El Quds esh Sherif, Yerushalayim)] on Friday night (Oct 3) arriving there on Saturday. I reckon I shall be at Aleppo [Halab] by about the 16th, stopping at Haifa and Damascus [Dimashq (Esh Sham, Damas)] on my way. After that it depends on how I can get on. I doubt if the railway to Nisibin [Nusaybin (Nisibis)] will be practicable owing to the doings of Mustafa Kamal whose name you may see in the papers. He is filibustering in Kurdistan.
It's not the least hot here, a delicious climate. My dear love to Mother. Ever your very affectionate daughter Gertrude