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Describes Delhi. Reports that he is to visit Miss Gange's school. Mentions Miss Morgan and Miss Portions, C. B. Young, Joel Lall, Principal Rudra and others. Discusses missionary policy asking whether Duff and Wilson were right or if too much was sacrificed to the Brahmins. Details his travels. Mentions the theft of his clothes on the railway.

Describes his voyage to Burma. Mentions H. M. Angus and H. A. L. Laidlaw, and Baker, of the Y.M.C.A. Describes Sheve Dagon. Details his travels, including a visit to a leper asylum, and a hill station at Maymyo where he stays with a Johnian, C. M. Webb. Asks them to congratulate his contemporary at St John's, Wynne Willson on becoming Dean of Bristol. Prefers Burma to India.

Describes his return journey from India. Mentions meeting Dr Tom Jays, a Baptist whom he worked with in France called Burz, and Major Comber of Pembroke College.

Describes the preparations for a lecture he gave at the Y.M.C.A. in Colombo. Reports that Roderick Archibald, son of W. F. A. and cousin of Bob, is in Colombo engaged in Children's Mission work. Encloses typed description of T. R. Glover in Colombo by A. E. Restarick.

Mentions that this is a summary of a longer letter that he has sent via Alice to the 'Westminister'. Regarding his arrival in Bombay, where he was met by E. C. Carter, the American General Secretary of the Indian National Y.M.C.A. and a Cambridge friend, Whitehor; his impression of India; his engagements in Bombay; his journey to Conjeeveram, where he stays with Mrs McLean; H. G. Hogg and his wife; Conjeeveram; his 'boy', James Job; his engagements in Madras; plans for his onward journey.

Describes the failure of a lecture that he and Mr P. A. Goold attempted to give to the soldiers at the Jutogh Barracks near Simla. Asks them to preserve his poetry published in the 'Westminister' as well as the 'Rangoon Times'. Details his plans to travel to Hoshangabad and stay with Jack Hoyland, then travel on to Poona. Mentions his meeting with J. H. Towle, principal of the Mohammedan College at Aligarh, and his wife, Rosie Heelas, who knew Bessie at Mrs Badock's in Bristol. Mentions Maggie Heelas, also married to a man in India. Complains about muslims he has met or heard of. Sends news of C. F. Angus, brother Christopher and his cousin Harold. Describes Simla and the surrounding countryside. Describes dinner with G. T. Walker, a meteorologist who attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

Details of his journey from Madras to Ceylon and his reception in Ceylon, including his appearance in the local papers. Mentions that Sir Anton Bertram, formerly of Cauis, is Attorney-General in Ceylon. Records a local riddle starting 'Why is Ceylon a good place for a girl to come out to?'.

Asks his parents to keep copies of his letters in the 'Westminister Gazette'. Thanks them for the reviews of 'Poets and Puritans'. Mentions that Alice does not have a chance to collect them for him. Describes the progress of his lecture tour in India. Mentions Mrs Wallace with whom he stayed and arduous train journeys. Writes that the father of an Indian student at St John's garlanded him with a 'mali' of silver and gilt. Refers to Gilbert Robinson.

Describes his journey, including a meeting with a Cambridge physicist, Gray, serving as a lieutenant in the Artillary, and his fellow officer, Mitchell. Disgust at a 'painted lady' on the train. Refers to people he knows upon the boat, including Dr Grosvenor of the W. M. S. in China, Elmhurst, Jennings of Downing. Mentions his cabin mate, a Scots second lieutnant who talks about his sweetheart, Nettie.

Sends news of his wife, daughters and new baby boy. Mentions John Few.