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9th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. Its lucky that you have Viscount Fox there with you to make such funny jokes about schools of fish devouring their teachers. I'm not sure that he's quite as funny as he seems to think he is. I'd like to see him hanging on for dear life over the briney deep while a shark snaps at his feet. Until, that is, the argument about the shark. This did not go down well and the Baronet threatened to send you my head instead. Shouting and hand waving wha...

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6th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. It certainly leaves me feeling quite the opposite. Very, very opposite indeed. In fact opposite and, a little too frequently, upside down. I must tell you now, my Lady, that this is bunkum. Dangerous and terrible bunkum. It is, in fact wholly and utterly ghastly. They are not adequately insulated, either, which can be a serious drawback when crossing the North Sea in winter. And neither, I regret to inform you, is the tarpaulin covering c...

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12th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. You certainly do seem to be having a jolly time at the tea table with Viscount Fox while we are away. I know that I have not always been approving of your friendship with that young man - but I must say he can be very clever at times. His remark that you repeat about it being difficult to tell which is the more dangerous wild animal, the shark, the wolf or Baronet Oxshott, is very witty and observant. Tell him well done from me. The Professor...

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14th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. Now we have gone beyond the reach of the postal service, I will simply have to imagine how you are getting along. So, I imagine you sitting in the drawing room, with your Pekinese lap dog Knife curled up at your feet, a blazing fire in the grate and tea being served. You are not, I think, hurtling across the freezing ice behind a pack of yelling dogs with nothing but wind-dried herring to chew on. I, however, am. I gather, from some of what h...

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13th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. We, meanwhile, have had the most alarming and eventful day. We awoke to find the morning already windy and grey - clouds were massing on the horizon, slate grey and heavy, growing rapidly into a storm front - and as we tried to start packing our equipment, the storm came sliding in, casting everything into shadow, and the wind began to stir up the tree tops, creaking and slashing them together. In the wake of the blizzard the whole landscape ...

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15th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. I wonder, of course, when I might ever get to send you this letter, now that we have gone beyond the postal service even of Norway, and not just the postal service, either. We are also now beyond grocers, butchers, farmers, vegetable patches and even berry bushes. We are beyond, in fact, food. Be prepared, Hope, always my motto, be prepared, like the scouts,' is what he said, and then he repeated his joke. This is his Lordship's joke:. Anyway...

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4th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. I’m sure it will, relishing, as I’m sure you are, the delights of being without a tutor for the moment. Have you made a bonfire of your books, I wonder, and are you busy unlearning your Latin? I’m sure your friend Viscount Fox will be happy to supply you with plenty of useless knowledge to replace it with, he does seem to know such a lot about nothing of any consequence. Quite how he could enjoy himself so much being shuddered and lurched alo...

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17th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. If it finds you at all. I have no doubt that you will see me long before your ever see this letter, but I feel I ought to continue writing, to record our adventures. I wonder what you are doing today? Your thoughts, I know, will be with us, and that cheers me considerably. His only regret is, apparently, that he could not bring his daughter with him. Harry asked him why he didn't bring her and he looked astonished. Science tells us a female c...

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2nd December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia. As you will know by now - and as you probably knew before - although I may now be the kind of man who might ask you to dance, I am not yet the kind of man you would dance with, partly because you had already agreed to dance with all the eligible young men in the room and your dance card was full but mostly, I suspect, because you didn't want to. But then, you have seen some of the problems for yourself and know all too well just how ironed out they have to be. At first all seem...

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19th December | The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope

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My Dear Lady Misericordia,. I hope this letter finds you well. I do hope that you have recovered from your exertions at the Christmas Ball in the no doubt entertaining company of Viscount Fox. I am afraid, my Lady, that I am suddenly not all that sorry that I included your father's less than charitable remarks in my last letter. My last letter. Surely this mystery at least will have gathered your attention. You must have had that letter by now, but how? Surely the penny post does not extend that far?