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- 21 Dec 1947 (Creation)
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Gorringes, Downe, Kent. - His and his wife's thanks for Bob's 'nice poetical Christmas card ["From the Shiffolds"]; he likes "The Pleasure" and "The Dream", perhaps he likes "The Pleasure" best as he 'likes some rhymes', and 'can't help it' if that is a 'weakness'. Hopes Bob's Leith Hill is not as 'badly scarred' as it was when he described it. The Darwins are looking forward to Ursula and Philip coming on Monday, and Julian on Christmas Eve. 'Poor little Philip sounds wonderfully well' after his illness; expects he is still 'rather weak in the hind legs'. Robin and Nicola are also coming; there is a turkey, 'the first to have occurred for several years', and he thinks 'enough to drink'. Hopes Bob has a good, 'though probably a more tranquil Xmas'.
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- Darwin, Bernard Richard Meirion (1876-1961) author and journalist (Subject)
- Darwin, Elinor Mary (1879-1954) illustrator, engraver and portrait painter (Subject)
- Mommens, Ursula Frances Elinor (1908-2010) potter (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Philip Erasmus (b. 1943) farmer, writer, and film and television director (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)
- Darwin, Sir Robert Vere (1910-1974) knight, painter (Subject)
- Fenn, Nicola Mary Elizabeth (1916-1975) daughter of Bernard Darwin (Subject)