An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman [‎571v] (1164/1291)

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him go, Eena, meena mlna mo. The Gov. has promised Lock a (|i0
good Bakhtiarl to talk to, though exactly when there is going
to be time for him it is not easy to see.
Life is very full and very pleasant. Think of waking
every morliing to a sight of green bushes, rugged mountains
and bright blue sky and the rush of cool fresh air as the
dark curtain is drawn back from the open window, and of flndtng
a large bowl of bew-cut roses on your washing stand and a few chtdc^
buds on your dressing table for younto wear. This is the servants
own idea, which I do not discourage. Persians genuinely love
flowers and are never tired of pulling and arranging them. You
see all the little ragamuffins in the streets carrying roses in
their hands Just now, for the pure love of than. Poor Blim
was disconcerted to find a large wreath of roses round his horses
neck one day when they first began to be in blossom.
I have a lot of work on ray hands Just now, first curtains
for the fowl house. For these I have got a very pretty little
cream muslin with a lively pale green stripe, it will fade no
doubt and will hardly be stout enough or dark enough for the
winter, but it is very cheap and for the moment will look cool
and dainty. The next lady can see about his winter curtains !
Then I also want to make a lot more cushions for the tebnis
court seat. This ever-swefcllng community takes up a lot of space
when it sits down.
I made a daring attack the other day on my large black hat
which had suffered from eternal packing and got all out of shape.
I cut him right up and have created out of the remains a neat
little toque-sort of quaker-sort of thing of which I am awfully
proud. Its brim is lined with white net nlvely finished with
a band of narrlw black velvet i of an inch from the edge. Its
crown is a sort of turban of white net lined with black, and two
ostrich feathers stand up and strech right back fastened in with a
liny rosette of white net. I consider it really a masterpiece,
and quite like the illustrations of what are now being worn at home
except that the thing is comfortable-looking nd balances Itself on
my head. Lock is much struck with the ingenuity of the effort
but quite refuses all admiration to the result ! I admit it is
the first of its kind in Kerman. I don’t think it is unbecoming
and I am sure it is very 'new'. Anyhow it is wearable when wanted
As a matter of fact you seldom go out so very late in the day as
to make a straw hat wise, and I wear my topi most times. In
our own garden after tennis etc. I dontw wear any hat at all, so
Lock's s ul won't be distressed by seeing too much of the hat.
vEspecially as I have two other n$ce ones I didn't make l)
Every post now brings us proof sheets. We are delighted
with the way the Press is turning the grammar out. I am sure it
will give Father great pleasure. There is a real aesthetic
Pleasure in a well-printed well-arranged book much akin to the
sensation of a good line of piptry and to which Father is keenly
susceptible. I have not yet begun the Index; it is Just as well
not to dash at it, and then wish one had adopted some better