I have therefore great pleasure in enclosing L100 for the benefit of the poor nuns and other inhabitants.

I hope very soon, however, they will be relieved, and I trust poor sister Sarah will be none the worse for all she has gone through during her forced captivity.

Many thanks for sending me that beautifully drawn-up report of your Yeomanry Hospital.

How well you have explained everything! Hoping to meet soon, "Yours affectionately, "(Signed) ALEXANDRA."[41] Some fourteen months after my return home a _Gazette_ appeared with the awards gained during the early part of the war, and great was my delight to find I had been selected for the coveted distinction of the Royal Red Cross.

The King had previously nominated Lady Georgiana Curzon and myself to be Ladies of Grace of the Order of St.John of Jerusalem, which entitles its members to wear a very effective enamel locket on a black bow; but, next to the Red Cross, the medal which I prize most highly is the same which the soldiers received for service in South Africa, with the well-known blue and orange striped ribbon.