1 27. Nov. I am sending a general
letter tho' your last deserves
a direct reply. I am beginning to wonder
what will be left for your
committee by Lady R & Mrs
B , but can see that at pres-
ent you have useful work in
keeping the peace & explaining. I think your committee
will have to take up the
"Agency" work in self defence
& in any case you can hard-
ly do harm by making
arrangements for it now in
case , or rather in getting all
the information you can in
case they decide to do so. I wish I were a little happier
about Rex's future. I am not 2 sure I ought to have got him
a commission in the Inf! I have answered the enclosed
from Hugh. Many thanks for Castlefield
extracts, I want to see if we
ought to wan sell out, but
prices of shares still keep very
low compared with dividend
prospects. These in spite of the
drop of /3' per lb are extraordin-
arily good for this year, & in
fact for the next 6 months
the PR will be able to think
she has really married according
to the bait held out to her. She will certainly find later
however that it was bait not
daily meal, I'm afraid, but
according to her our bargain
the motor ought to motorialise
tho' I don't quite know how it 3 would be kept up later, &
in any case our first duty
is to the country. I don't know what O
should do if you were really
the extravagant litlle ani-
mal I once thought you.
Certainly not let you see
my passbook, but probably
give you an allowance
& a very strict one too. General Powell seems
to have been fairly well. I
am glad some of your fami-
ly should have met him as
it will probably be clearer to
them that the p r & b w
did work which was really 4 good, even tho' non not appreciated
by the Govt, quite as by
a p r which is much more
important. Gaiters have arrived
I shall not unpack them
yet