Reference
AU10/102/1/98
Title
Handwritten letter
Date free text
16 March 1959
Production date
From: 1959 To: 1959
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"Many happy returns! I hope this finds you in good health and that you will have a happy birthday. Thank you for your letter and the chat about the bungalow controversy. My luck was out the evening Sir A. and Miss D. appeared on TV. I had been keeping my eyes skimmed, but on that particular night I had a friend in to dinner (a master at the prep school in B'stairs where the Gloucester boys were), he arrived about 6.30, and it went completely out of my head. It was only the next evening, when Frank came in and mentioned it, that I realised it had happened. I was furious, of course!
Yes, I remember the piece of the Dynevor House garden which lies to the back of S.Joseph's. Actually the garden is on the level of the attic of the latter. Miss Florence always has the idea of making a window at the end of the attic, overlooking the garden: but she knew old Maud Wingfield would have raised Cain about it, so she did not pursue the matter. A door would of course give direct access to the garden: I assume this is what the present owners of S.J's intended to do. What a pity Miss D. did not agree!
No, I cannot recollect Roger Sharpe, or the Methodist aunt who is now confirmed! And I do not get the "Evening News" here , so I didn't see you had won a book token. Crossword puzzles have always baffled me: I haven't done many: I haven't the kind of brain for them, I suppose. I always remember a woman living by herself, opposite S.John the D.K., who used to spend all her time doing them (they were an innovation then): whenever I called the place was knee-deep in newspapers and magazines of all kinds she never read: the newsagent had orders to send every paper with one in: it was a mania with her: a sort of substitute for drink!
I have never been to the Canterbury Music Festival. If it is in June, that is when I expect to be touring Spain with my friend from Devon. I am busy reading Cervantes "Don Quixote", and Morton's "Stranger in Spain". But I am due for a trip to France before that, just after Easter. My old friend Sydney Crouch is coming on Maundy Thursday, when his school term ends, to stay over Easter. I expect the Castle will fill up that week after the quiet of the past six months. I sometimes think I prefer the winters here to the summers, as there are fewer people about!
Yours sincerely,"
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