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Pleased to hear that AB has found a good maid, asks if she will take on another who is respectable but in need of employment, plans to augment AB's share of Henry Monk's estate

Douglas staying as he was sent to Hatfield with an aeroplane, farm business, rearrangement of rooms at Eaton Mansions

Please she has secured a servant, London much changed, houses down everywhere, roads blocked, nearly every church has been hit, bought Henry's fishing rods at Harrod's sale for his nephews, a Monk bracelet was sold at Christie's for £810

Recommends a maid, items belonging to James Henry Monk to be sold at Harrods, clearing out silver and offering AB some

Christmas presents, Stephen to be offered something by the War Office, servants going to see Peter Pan for their New Year's Eve treat

Servants in wartime, funeral of Frederick Hicks [Bishop of Lincoln]

Sends postcards which Alice Sanford has developed, to travel to Florence, Ancona and Brindidi, having given up the idea of visiting Montenegro

It remains unsettled as to whether Stephen Sanford goes to Germany

All sorry Churchill is not Prime Minister, thinks Duncan Sandys would be an unpopular Parliamentary candidate

The election did not go as well as Conservatives hoped, result depends on the army vote

Ann Bowes Lyon's wedding, reception for Bernard Montgomery in Paris

Tom Dinsdale badly wounded in arm and leg

Stephen Sanford to go to Norway soon

Has applied for administration of Henry Monk's estate

Trust funds

Counties adopting bombed areas of London and sending furniture and other goods

Doodlebugs appear heavier and do more damage, wishes to move to better accommodation, two maids would be enough staff for JM, wonders how "Robin" will get on with the Duff Coopers as he has not been much of a success elsewhere

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

To use Sybil Legh's Service Flat in Eaton Mansions

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

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