Kimberley Club,
Kimberley
Feb 7th. 1898
My dear Raymond and Joe, your very interesting letters of Jan 13 from London, came last week. What with Olympia & Barnums Show, the Crystal Palace, & the Pantomime, I think you made the most of your time in London.
I hope you had a pleasant & interesting time in Birmingham. You were both very lucky to get invited down there. I suppose the Bolton's you stayed with Raymond, belong to the Bolton's who were the first manufacturers of Steam Engines in England. When I was a boy I used to read of the struggles of the small firm of "Bolton & Watt" and how they invented and worked out the system of applying steam as a power in mechanics.
