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Has been going through his mother's papers

Clifton, Bristol - Thanks WW for his 'elegant and interesting Christmas gift...I have read five chapters with great and increasing interest' [WW, Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay, 1853]: 'It would not be easy to conceal the authorship - but I find that it is already perfectly understood here so that I presume you have been at no pains to conceal it'.

Montréal - Is enjoying herself with her family, hopes he is enjoying his time in Dordogne.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 11 - Wonders about Max [Müller]'s 'Fire Totems'; has added the fire walk to an unidentified publication.

Abolition of tuition feeds in grant-aided secondary schools, special report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1943. Board of Education. The public schools and the general education system, report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1944

5 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge - is moving back into college during Long Vacation, coaching student from King's College, going to London, visit to Gracedieu in September, a Trinity boat has gone Head of River, has been visited by Bruce Cornford.

Press cuttings on Home Office work including prop corporal punishment lobby, pressure for abolition of hanging, proposed immigration curbs and Commonwealth Immigrants Bill, victory over the 'floggers' at 1961 Annual Conference and report of Royal Commission on the Police, also House of Lords Reform, eligibility of Wedgwood Benn as an M.P., controversy over RAB's Madrid speech about closer links between Spain and the West, RAB Chairman of Cabinet negotiations Oct 1961-, anti-nuclear rallies by Committee of 100, RAB's appointment to Central African Office and visit to Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland May 1962, Orpington by-election; original letter from Harold Macmillan asking RAB to take charge of the Government for four days in Dec 1961; press cuttings of births of grandchildren, Mollie becoming President of Women's Advisory Council of London Conservative Associations; photographs of RAB taking farewell of Nyasaland Government Ministers at Zomba airfield (7 docs) and taking the salute at Zomba airfield, RAB with Dr H.K. Banda, leader of Malawi Congress Party, and Sir Glyn Jones, Governor of Nyasaland, during break in talks (2 docs), RAB with Sir Roy Welensky, RAB and Mollie during African tour (2 docs), RAb and Mollie with Somerset Maugham at Royal Society of Literature function c. May 1961 (2 docs), RAB and Mollie in evening dress at unidentified function, at Epsom Derby 1962, RAB inspecting police at annual parade at Police Training Centre, Ryton in Dunsmore, Warwickshire, June 1962

(The salutation is ‘Dear Papa, Mamma, and sisters’.)

Anuradhapura, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. - Glad to have had three quiet days here after recent 'rushing about'. Will go to Kandy for four or five days tomorrow; they leave Colombo for Batavia on 15 or 16 February. [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson is staying for a couple of nights with an old friend between here and Kandy. Describes the ruins here, and sketches the dagobas [brick stupas] which are 'very ugly' in his opinion; the sculpture is 'conventional, and evidently made to order' but there are two reliefs of an elephant and man cut into a rock which he finds 'fine as can be'. Thinks Indian art 'disappointing on the whole', but when it does 'come off' as here, it rivals anything he has seen elsewhere. Ceylon is 'more beautiful than most of India', though they did like Travancore very much. They stayed there as 'state guests', though they only met the Maharajah, 'an amiable, conscientious, unhealthy-looking man', briefly. Mentions the night they spent at Cape Comorin, a trip into the jungle, and a 'fascinating journey by houseboat' from Trivandrum to Quilon. Travancore seems in many ways 'the best-governed native state in India', with the people 'more prosperous and better educated' than elsewhere, though they benefit from nature being 'bountiful' there. Much enjoyed their days in camp with Mr [ James Perch] Bedford, collector of Salem, before going to Travancore; their visits to Trichinopoly, Tanjore and Madura were interesting but 'very tiring'. Is glad to have good news from Bessie and his parents. Julian will have been at home for some time now; expects Sir George and Caroline will be at Welcombe. Hopes to be back in May to go to the Lake Hunt; will probably not go to Japan, but start home from Pekin [Beijing] towards the end of April. By then he will have 'seen as much of the world as [he] can reasonably want to see at one time' and will be ready to return.

Finishes the letter next day in the botanical gardens at Kandy, under a 'clump of giant bamboos' and next to a river in which he intends to bathe soon. His father would like Kandy. Has not yet seen Buddha's tooth, which they say is really a crocodile's. There were many crocodiles in the big tanks at Anuradhpura, which he did not know until he had bathed there; they saw one. There are none here in the hills. Expects he will write next from Singapore or Batavia.