Yes, that little bundle of mischief is back! He must have gone to London by steamer, in the days when the golden era of the great liners was just beginning. He would have travelled second class, and would have had a smashing time on the voyage over, I would think.

Savoy, London
3 August, 1904

Dear Mary Jane,

I have just finished my tea.  Next Sunday you will see how I went to the Zoological Gardens. English people are not fickle and excitable like Americans: they go to the zoo every week, year in and year out, and look at the same animals, and have a cup of tea and like it just as well as at first.  When they like a thing here, they will stick to it.  They would like Henry Irving if he played a fairy.  They make changes very slowly.  I don’t mean they make changes slowly, for they don’t.  They don’t have trusts or Tammany Hall over here, so they ought to be happy.  They never say that they 'guess' -  it’s American.  Girls are gells and a shilling is a bob.

Tige is getting to be a copy cat and a snob.  He wears a monocle now, and says ‘O’ rawther’ and ‘O’ I say!’ and says he thinks London is perfectly topping.  I shouldn’t talk like this about him; he’s such a good dog, but lots of good people fall to English manners and mannerisms.  I feel myself toppling a little.
Yours,
 Buster

P.S. is it true that Roosevelt is elected?

Dear Jack,

I met the [believe it to be King, but text is obscured] on the [something obscured again] bus the other day.  There are so many advertisements that they have to run thousands of buses just to get them all on. Some of the white horses have ads on their sides, outsides of course.  When I first saw the buses I thought it was an alderman’s funeral.  They said they wished it was.  Speaking of the King, I passed the Queen and big casino in Hyde Park one day.  Hyde Park is the only poor thing they’ve got in London.
I’ll write more next time.

Buster Brown