My very dear Mary. / Thursday or Saturday / next week I will keep sacred / - o such a funny reading of your / telegram came - it said / "the Three hundred next week / will do" / and at first I thought I / owed you £300 and that / you kindly let me off till / next week. / but 300 was zoo - / and this cheered me for a whole day - so uneventful / is my life - I told that blessed mama thatit / was fine Thursday / was the day & / she agreed. / and i am / your very "fect'. / EBJ