I forgot to tell you, he writes, 24.4.21, that I received y’day, from Jack Tennant, from a house with an improbable name, in a Scotch county which I had never heard of (Morayshire), a salmon—the whole bird—weighing 7½ lbs. and measuring somewhere about 7½ feet. I distributed 3 lbs. to my doctor and 3 lbs. to the heir presumptive to the Cave-Brown-Cave baronetcy (with apologies for the radical source of the gift). My wiff and I ate 3 oz. of it to our dinner; and the remainder was consumed by the manageress, the bookkeeper and housekeeper of the Royal Hotel....
Ten days later his preparations were complete.
Unless I ring you up at 11, on Friday, he writes, 3.5.21, I will be with you at 11, as suggested in your letter—the morning is still my best time—and lunch at the club.
XV
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;