25 Jul 1921

25 July 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

Dear Mrs Jones,
Please forgive me for not having written to you sooner but I have to keep all my letter writing for Sunday just now; I am so hard pressed with a book that won't be finished, during the week.
It is more than kind of you to have sent me the photograph of your perfectly lovely little boy! You must indeed be proud of him. Please give him my love & thanks for it, too . . . I think the way you have had it taken is so charming, too – showing his arms and hands. Children are a joy to look upon . . . I do hope I shall see the small original one day. I shall try not to tell him how lovely he is – but thats always rather hard.
England seems to have had a real summer at last. The Daily News arrives here gasping & even The Nation looks warm. Here on our mountain tops we are hot, too, but never too hot. And we step out of our front door and our back door into a forest which is always cool.
With kindest regards
Yours very sincerely
Katherine Mansfield Murry.

[To Alice Jones in Collected Letters, 24 July, 1921.]