Page:Letter from T.H. Barker to his wife Mary, 12 December 1903, p4.png

 I have to see $here$ Baron 's sister, who is married to Major General something, Judge of the Court Martial court, evidently a great & powerful functionary. They say the Russians are courting the English just now.

Mr Groves has just told me of the narrow escape of —how delighted I am at the news. It would have been dreadful had she been burnt. The is better, & I hear the  is middling.

I will write you again to-morrow & when I must see Cooke the Foreign Office court agent.

I note all home news & wish best love to you all, am yours ever affect husband, Tom.

Mrs Barker

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Liverpool

PS I hope you have got the Japanese things. Parcels go by English mail via Suez; they are larger than standard letters.