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King's Coll. Cambridge [headed notepaper]. - Of course realised that she would not be writing letters 'for some time [after her husband's death on 21 Mar]; is 'very glad' to hear from her. Hopes she is 'feeling somewhat rested now...'; good that she has 'people to look after [her]', and that she is for the present staying 'as you are, and where you are. After these great changes, it is much better that one should wait - when it is possible to do so - and should let the future shape itself'.

Afraid that he will not be able to come and visit her in early June, as he will be 'so wound up in Aldeburgh and other matters'; would like to come later in the year. His 'pleurisy went off very easily, thanks to a new pill', so he was 'able to receive the King, Queen, and Princess Margaret fairly well, and able very well indeed to receive an Hon[orary] Degree at Nottingham'. This was a 'very pleasant experience. After the ceremony, we all processed through the city in our coloured bits and odds and ends, with the Mayor and the Mace in front, and held up the traffic'. Sebastian Sprott is now Public Orator, and made a 'charming' speech about him.

Sends love and hopes to see her later.

King's Coll. Cambridge [headed notepaper]. -Thanks her and Bob for sending the Abinger Chronicle 'so quickly [see TRER/ADD/87]; can return it, as he has found his own copy. No hurry for her to return his Skelton piece; in the 'revised version' he 'did mention R[alph] V[aughan] W[illiams] - his setting of Skelton's Hymn to the Father had been sung two days earlier in the church [at the Aldeburgh Festival]

King's Coll. Cambridge [headed notepaper, 'as from' added by hand]. -Sends a draft of his Skelton paper [no longer present], which she said she would like to read. The 'final script was rather longer, and started differently'; the paper [given at the Aldeburgh Festival 'went quite well and the people laughed - they had not been given the opportunity before'. The Festival was a 'great success'; he saw Julian, also meeting his wife [Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden did not in fact marry until 1951], and they had 'some pleasant talk'

Forster's health is 'much better after a month of sea air, sunshine, and easy living'. Returns to Cambridge tomorrow, and from there if all goes well to London. Can 'now walk about three miles without getting tired, a great improvement'.

Asks if Bob could lend him the issue of the Abinger Chronicle containing 'a piece of fun by me entitled Luncheon in Pretoria'; wants to have it typed out, as he is 'collecting together various pamphlets, articles, etc, to see whether they look like a book'. Will return it quickly. Sends love to both.