ABSTRACT
Two of his letters from Austria, in that summer of 1898, carried an admonishment to ‘Dear Bertie’ after his nephew had suffered a medical upset:
Don’t grow up into a livery, jaundiced, probably querulous old man [10 August]... Do try to live regularly – as plainly as you like, but not a feast one day and a fast the next. I only wish I had attended more to my eating and drinking when I was young – what trouble, pain and worry I should have avoided! [12 August]
