12 Aug 1921

12 August 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

Dear
Thank you for your letter. I would have written a card before but the Furies have been busy. I have been - am - ill ever since you left with what Doctor H. calls acute enteritis. High fever, sickness, dysentery and so on. I decided yesterday to go to the Palace but today makes me feel Ill try & see it through here. Jack is awfully kind in the menial offices of nurse & as I cant ‘take' anything except a little warm milk E. cant do her worst! Its v. unfortunate because it holds up my work so. Just when I am busy. But cant be helped. If I were to tell you how Ive missed you even you might be satisfied! At the same time - this is serious - don't hurry back, will you? The worst is over. Dont rush. I shall manage. Dont come before you have arranged - i.e. the 6th. At the same time dont, just to oblige a Glasspool, come later!
I am glad you are safely there. Not a word about your new neffy - or haven't you seen him yet. Oh, I would hate to be in England. If only, in the next two years I can make enough money to build something here. But my soul revolts at your pension-talk again. I suppose it gives you a trumpery sense of power to take on one job & pretend all the time you're perfectly free for any other that comes along. A pity you can't resist the female in you.

[To Ida Baker, Collected Letters, 20 August 1921.]