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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.

Stowe School - criticises his own poem "Alcibiades", surprised that Frances Cornford has not heard of Skelton, quotes from "Speke Parrot".