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For the next few days Teixeira was absorbed in his preparations for leaving Crowborough. On arriving in London, he came to stay with me until he and his wife went to the Isle of Wight for the autumn and winter.

In acknowledging, on 1. 9. 20 his instructions about the diet on which he now lived, I wrote:

''Many thanks for your letter written on the anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. Do not forget to date any letters you may write on Friday the anniversary of Naseby, the crowning mercy of Worcester and the death of O. Cromwell.''

Teixeira interpolated here:

(And the birthday of my late aunt Judith Teixeira.)

On 2. 9. 20 he writes:

Dodd [Dodd, Mead and Co. Inc.] is going to reissue [Couperus'] Majesty in America and