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Item 48a: Castle Hale, Painswick, Glos. - Helen Georgiana Baddeley hopes a perfect secretary will be found to help them; is sorry to hear about Frazer's eyes, asks if she knows Canon Scott Holland's letter to G. R. Romanes when he lost his sight, has reread Milton's words about his blindness; encloses her husband's note and cheque (item 48b).
Item 48b: The University House, St. Andrews - St. Clair Baddeley asks for 2 copies of the projected volume, one for himself, the other for his brother [John Frederick Baddeley?]; announces the university has just awarded him the LLD.

Castle Hale, Painswick, Glos. [on mourning stationery] - Is pleased to hear that Sir James' operation was successful; also pleased to hear that she recalls their time in Rome, which they last visited two years before in November, with fewer tourists but more easily recognisable spies; Ponza, Lampedusa and Lipari are full of political victims of Mussolini; Boni faded out before things became so bad, two underground railways are being made in Rome; has told Signorina Tea her words in her letter to Mrs Plimmer, hope to see them soon; they have never wavered in friendship, but felt something of an 'occult misunderstanding' arose long ago.