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Arrangements for the settlement of Henry Monk's estate

Judith Wilberforce has given birth to a daughter, busy time with visitors, new Irish maid getting on well, Arthur [Monk] missing feared dead

Encloses a cheque for monies in settlement of Henry's estate

Encloses deed for £218.1.6. bank stock

Thinks "Pev" [Peveril Sanford] a prisoner, "Bill" has been killed

Enjoying the grerenery and the hills, Ralli ancestors

Princess Olga Mickeladze seriously ill, Bill killed by a random shot while in a car, Robin Hooper returned from Morocco with fruit, no news of Peveril Sanford

Encloses money from Henry's estate owed for rents on mines, light nights deter the German bombers

Bomb strike close by [perhaps that of Sloans Square Underground Station] shook the house and damaged windows

Painting maps for the troops with the WVS, effects of air raids

Does not wish to leave London unless it becomes necessary, disgust at the miners' strike, Government defeat on the Education Bill "unfortunate", attended a meeting on Greek Independence Day

Sends cheque from money from Henry's estate

Colonel Elia a great help, especially during the shipwreck and its aftermath, thinks Alice will prefer the balls in Constantinople to those of Athens, will take Orient Express to Vienna

Stephen Sanford promoted to Lieutenant Colonel

Thanks for gooseberries, will spend holiday with AB if possible, defenders of London have stopped firing at flying bombs, the Guard's Chapel was destroyed by a bomb during service and all inside killed, Stephen Sanford took an American surgeon on a night trip around London by bus

Thinks travelling to Usk will be too difficult, servants are very nervous of the air raids, Sloane Court hit, Irene Wilberforce had temporary windows blown out again

To use Sybil Legh's Service Flat in Eaton Mansions

Comfortable in Sybil Legh's flat, servants very obliging, saving sugar for AB, sorry to hear AB' bees are eating her honey, Meesdon Manor destroyed by a bomb that fell on the tennis court