Lady Victoria Campbell

"REST AND BE THANKFUL" 343
Mackinnon was kept by illness in Glasgow, and Lady
Victoria did not forget the absent member of the
Lodge Farm.
The Lodge, Tiree. Xmas Eve, 1909.
And so, dear Katie, Dr. Benjamin was right,
was she ? How good of Rev. Hector ! If it had
been me, I should have preferred a private hospital
ward. Just because everything is at hand. Write
me all particulars ! I miss you here. John is
a Commander-in-Chief as usual. Ship to be lit up
to-morrow. Pipes, a gramophone. But at 11.15
we begin with Rev. Macpherson and wife coming
to a Christmas Service. Then everyone at 3.30
p.m. A gentleman shows the gramophone. Glori-
ous weather.
Yours most truly,
Victoria Campbell.
The letters from the Lodge to Island House tell
best the tale of the fleeting days.
To Mrs. MacDiarmid.
Nov. 8th, 1909.
I shall be back (D.V.) soon, when, I don't
know. I shall wire ; it won't be this week.
Jan. 13th, 1910.
I was really unhappy about you on Sat., and
thought how amusingly we had changed places,
for it was the kind of weather in which I would go
to you in 1896. I leaving you in bed or sofa.