You can't go much out of a walk for the horse's sake. I have a good many acquaintances but no friends, except Mr Dobbs who is going, and Gen. McMunn who really has become a friend in a way. I miss Mrs Van Ess - he too is going away for a bit. I have nice talks with him about Arabs and Arabic, on which he's a great authority. Mother's letter of June 22 came in the middle of the week.
Agriculture seems to be no light job.
But it was partly about all that business that I went to India. What will become of it, I wonder. For immediate purposes the net result is that it's one in the eye for the Turks, but I doubt whether it will lead immediately to anyone else giving them another - if you'll pardon my coarse language. In fact I don't think it will. But as long as the French front goes well we can ficher ourselves pas mal of the Turks.