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August 16 [1913]
My dear Gertrude,
Well, I have accepted – commissioner for the new south Albania to begin work on the 1st Sept. It ought to be interesting & useful but I lose £150 over Norway as I had paid rent etc & cannot now sublet. Maleish! One never knows.
I go to Wales today painfully travelling in the middle of the night & back here as an address on Tuesday.
We do L. Ochnida to the sea – and I have it seems to oil the works for everybody as far as may be.
It is in the book – I don’t know whether to be glad or sorry – but have visions of 300 splendid antlers walking forestwise over a mountain crest while we wallowed in a snow drift & were still – they are lost – but what comes next?
Do write to me.
Yours,
Dick
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Evolving Hands is a collaborative digital scholarship project between Newcastle University and Bucknell University which explores the use of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Text Encoded Initiative (TEI XML) to enhance cultural heritage material. In this project, we have applied these methods to a selection of letters from the Gertrude Bell Archive.