From Alice [sister] to Beatrice, 12 January 1899
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- Comments on Cora and Nellie cleaning the house, a present of a 'worked' tablecloth, birthday and Christmas presents, the 'American' Store Co., boots, shoes, the Harrisons, Elsie and Eric, Trinity College, Elsie has lost her twang. Eric is over his 'Pimply age' and is now at Trinity College, Cambridge, describes a flat in London for 160 pounds a year, Ernest Lickells, Kate Patterson's studio, Addie Clark, Miss Walker. Addie Clark, fashion, bought black sequin net to do up an old black evening bodice, a dance at Sir Beaufort Leslies' Miss Bostock, Vivian Orr, miniatures at an exhibition, painting ivory boxes, Arundel Hotel, 'School' [a play] by John Hare at the Globe, St Pauls, a fancy dress party. Captain and Mrs Coke, had bought a silver tea set from Mr Whittaker who sent a silver pepper pot as a gift, the Dobsons, shocked that Rootie was married, shareholders of the College, Lady Gore Brown.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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