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30 Nov 1878

Sir Garnet Wolseley was experiencing his first winter in Cyprus

Sir Garnet Wolseley was experiencing his first winter in Cyprus

The days are now so cool when there are clouds about that one may play lawn-tennis all day. The nights are cold and the early mornings extremely cold. I get up about 5.00a.m. or  five thirty a.m. and write by camp light and my fingers are sometimes so cold that I have a great difficulty in writing. A most incomprehensible telegram from Layard forwarded to me by Lord Salisbury on the subject of the land question here. English post arrived in camp about 6.00 a.m. A rather more civil letter from Lord S. than usual, saying that Stanley and Smith were full of praise at the energetic manner in which Government was being carried on here.