"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-21

"My dear Ric, I write this in some agitation as I am not sure lest some report of what happened yesterday may have got back to England. It was a most fantastic incident. My journey started with an odd misaddventure[sic], I started from Jonnesburg[sic] on Wednesday morning in a temperature of round about 80%, and arrived at Bloemfontein in the same stuffy heat. This is a dreary town and my hotel was frightful, but I got through the day admirably, resting and doing some shops and having a most charming half-hour with a very young reporter from the local newspaper and a very nice press photographer, who gave me much local gossip..."