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Saw article on front page of Daily Telegraph about 'Princesses' first tube journey'; would like Sraffa to read it and cut it out if he can; 'It's incredible!'.

Records dates and visitors' name; addresses are also intermittently recorded. Royal signatures have a page to themselves, with the date written calligraphically at the top: a visit from Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on 20 Oct. 1955; from Princess Margaret on 6 Nov. 1958; from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 8 Jun. 1960 for the opening of Angel Court; from King Paul and Queen Frederica on 9 Mar. 1961, for a visit to the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory; from Elizabeth II on 28 May 1962 for the opening of Addenbrooke's Hospital. A black and white photograph of the Queen with Lord Adrian and the Lord Lieutenant in the street is inserted in the book.

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.