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In the summer and autumn of 1921 Teixeira enjoyed better health than at any time in the last seven years. He supported without ill-effects the strain of incessant luncheon and dinner-parties during the visit of Couperus to London; he moved from house to house, staying with friends; he completed his unfinished work and laid ambitious schemes for the future.

I have written to Couperus, he told me, 13. 5. 21, preparing him to be entertained by the Titmarsh Club and by the Asquiths

You might tell me in an early letter what to do in proposing [him] for temporary honorary membership of the Reform Club and when to do it

My dear Stephen, he writes, 16. 5. 21;

My dear Stephen, he repeats;

''The second allocution sounds almost superfluous; but I will not waste a sheet of Ryman's priceless Hertford Bank. I intended the "M"''