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"Darling Rac, Your two letters reached me on my return. I had spent the evening of Sunday at Baroness Kuigge's house. On Monday morning first a talk with Political Officer at Hanover and then with the German official for refugee affairs. After lunch Lingham and I drove to Volkmrote..."

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"Darling Rac, I yesterday got out of Louis all that he said he could remember. Today Greenhalgh told us the retreat fast, which Louis had not mentioned, and which was decisive. Louis is..."

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"My dear Rac, I thought you would like to have this [preface?] of Harold Nicolaus about. He is charming, though oddly enough he doesn't see the purpose of enduring the intense [?] of the children. It really is remarkable how in everything you write, [?] take it that a great yard of the [out house?] is life itself..."

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"My dear Ric, Herewith two forms, one signed as requested, the other requiring the signature of the Income Tax people. I have now started working in earnest, and I have accumulated a great deal of material. I have wandered over hospitals big and small and gate-crashed schools and attended the treason trial (see the enclosed cutting, which made me laugh a lot) and dined with a number of people - last night with June and Guy Hughes..."

Scope and Contents "Darling Rac, Everything here has gone off [splendidly?] and faster than Barclays thought possible. They have got [?] of your [?] from High Wycombe and can therefore [?] open the amount for you at Cannes without bothering you. This morning at 8.30 your time I telephoned to Erik Dunstan and asked him to get the doctor to send a telegram authenticated by Barclays, Cannes to Barclay London requesting them to provide foreign exchange for a stated number of days for your recovery and at 11.30am...

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"My deaar Ric, Forgive me for not having written for so long, but I have had strange adventures. I don't know how far I had got when I last wrote. But it has been a most curious story..."

Scope and Contents "My dear Ric, I left the Tiraus Rei after a wonderful day with mad missionaires and a religious maniac furniture maker, and went through Pundlau - wheel is like Greece, but green and glorious and covered with flowering shrubs of the most spectacular [?]. Saw Mr. Hyberg: 'I WOULD LIKE TO START A TOURIST HAGENCY HERE. HUN FORTUNATELY IT ISS THE 'OME OF THE BLACK MAMBA, YESS, AND OF THE GREEN MAMBA TOO.' DEEP SIGH. 'BUT IT ISS OUR EXPERIENCE-' MORE HOPEFULLY - 'THAT SNIKES NEVER INHEBIT...

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"My dearest Ric, You would never believe the things that have been happening to me. My life with the dear Miss Holts was wonderful but trying. The nature of their house can be gathered from the fact that they wanted to spend a summer in England two years ago and were only allowed to take five hundred each, which would never do, so they took two china pheasants off the mantlepiece and took hem[sic] to London and sold them at Sotheby's for four thousand pounds..."

Scope and Contents "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...

Scope and Contents "My dear Ric, I am back here in Johannesburg after a very odd trip. Nothing ever happens here normally. My stay in Maseru was not quite as I represented to you in the letter I sent from there, for I felt it was not safe to express myself freely after I had found my letter of credit spread out on the bed when I knew I had left it in its envelope in the handbag beside it. I liked my host, Gordon Hector, very much. He was not very intelligent and not very well-bred and quite obtuse, but he was...