Your letter made me laugh a great deal. I expect you will get to like the place. I am writing this from Rosedale, where I am in the middle of a large musical and artistic party, one painter, two novelists, and two pianists. They all hate each other like poison, and it is pain to all the others when one of them performs. But the rest of us are enjoying it immensely, and Lady Jarvis is being splendid. The Housmans have gone to Brighton for a fortnight. Bert is quite well again, but Mrs Housman looks fearfully ill.
I have just come back from Oakley, the Housmans' place, near Hendon. He has quite recovered, and everything was going on there just as usual. Jimmy Randall was there, and Mrs Fairburn. Housman said nothing about the summer, but Mrs Housman told me she was not going to Cornwall this year. I asked her if she was going to stay all the summer at Oakley, the Hendon house. She said that Housman had hired a yacht for the summer and asked several people. She said she couldn't bear steam yachting with a large party, and she has taken a small house on the west coast of Ireland, with Lady Jarvis. They would be there quite alone; she was going there quite soon: "Albert would probably go to France."
She told me Housman had wanted to take the house in Cornwall and ask us all again, but that she had told him this was impossible.
George has seen her once or twice, and he is of course happier, but things are where they were. She won't think of divorcing.
I shall start for Copenhagen at the end of July.
Housman has asked me to go to Oakley next Saturday. He has asked A. also.
Dined with A. and his sister. A. said he would be unable to go to Oakley next week. He had some people staying with him.
Dined with Aunt Ruth. Apparently Gertrude is still annoyed at the Caryls having got Copenhagen. She complains of this weekly.
Solway is staying the night with me, his concert is to-morrow afternoon.
Went with Mrs Housman to Solway's concert in the afternoon, and she drove me down to Hendon afterwards in her motor. Mrs Housman is going to spend the summer in Ireland.
_Sunday, July_ 2_nd. Oakley (near Hendon)_.
Mrs Fairburn and Carrington-Smith are staying here. Mrs Housman leaves to-morrow for Ireland.