Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTER XI To Mrs. Berkeley Winterbourne, The Vicarage, Saxonstead, Wilts. Mikonkatu 17, Helsinki, Suomi. Dear Lucy, (That is my present address in real Finnish.) I think one of your letters must have gone astray. There was a welcome budget from Saxonstead awaiting me when I returned to Helsingfors, written immediately after the Harvest Festival, relating how Mrs. Birtle picked up the slighted vegetable marrow and walked out of church with it, just before the service began. Then I received another letter from you, three days ago, in which the mollification of Mary Birtle is passed over as a thing accomplished; so I take it that there is a link wanting in the chain of narrative. Arvid says cheerfully, "People lose a lot of letters at this time of year." Foreign mails come quickly and uncertainly by St. Petersburg, or slowly and surely by Stockholm. If your last epistle travelled along the former route, it is quite possible that the authorities have agreed with our dear grandfather's dictum upon your black, upright script, "Lucy writes a very revolutionary hand," and caused the letter to vanish. The best means of safeguarding correspondence at present is to address via Stockholm, and also to number the envelope conspicuously, so that the officials perceive a regular interchange of letters is going on. I will try and answer some of those firm and piercing queries by which you manage to fasten down my fluttering descriptions to a practical issue: --(i) The cost of a night's lodging and breakfast upon my journey varied from two marks at Teerela, to ten marks in the Best Hotel at Imatra. If you and Berkeley will come to Finland next year, you may reckon that an average daily six marks each covers the expense of board and lodging while you...
