The 'Correspondence' Affair #27 - May 27, 1913 (Alexander to Millicent)

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From : London, England

May 27, 1913

My dearest Millicent,

I have been away from London for an extended time and just arrived back again yesterday. In going through my mail this morning, I found the letter that you had written from Venice. It was rather an unpleasant shock. I have no idea what His Lordship is thinking, but I am going to see if there is anything that can be done to prevent him from treating you as his personal pawn. I can only pray that you make it back to your school safely. The region of Turkey where Lawrence is currently may not be as bad as some of the region, but it is certainly not a place where I would feel comfortable in sending a young lady - or even a young man for that matter.

I also had your postcard and a letter from Lawrence in the pile, so at least I do know that you made it to Carchemish safely. It does help as well to see Lawrence's assurances that he will personally see to your wellbeing. He made mention of how very tiny you are. I did mention when I described you that your build was rather on the elvin side. Perhaps the stories he heard as a child had elves as being stockier creatures than the ones in the tales I heard.

I was able to open my present from you at the appropriate time. The leather tobacco pouch will mark an improvement on the pouch I had been using for my tobaccos. Thank you very much for that.

It seems I am unable to come up with much in the way of things to talk of that do not involve where you are. Despite the Treaty of London being due to be signed in five days, from all reports, few of the tensions have lessened. I would not be terribly shocked if war broke out again before the treaty is even signed. One of the several reasons that I hope you will be back in Switzerland reading this soon.

I've sent Lawrence a note asking that he drop me a line when you depart from Carchemish and I have no doubt that you will send a letter to let me know when you have arrived back in Thun. It seems both of us have become travelers whether that was our intent or not, doesn't it? As you yourself have noted, one never knows what is ahead.

Yours always,

Alexander

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