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- 7 May 1951 (Creation)
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King's Coll. Cambridge [headed notepaper]. - Of course realised that she would not be writing letters 'for some time [after her husband's death on 21 Mar]; is 'very glad' to hear from her. Hopes she is 'feeling somewhat rested now...'; good that she has 'people to look after [her]', and that she is for the present staying 'as you are, and where you are. After these great changes, it is much better that one should wait - when it is possible to do so - and should let the future shape itself'.
Afraid that he will not be able to come and visit her in early June, as he will be 'so wound up in Aldeburgh and other matters'; would like to come later in the year. His 'pleurisy went off very easily, thanks to a new pill', so he was 'able to receive the King, Queen, and Princess Margaret fairly well, and able very well indeed to receive an Hon[orary] Degree at Nottingham'. This was a 'very pleasant experience. After the ceremony, we all processed through the city in our coloured bits and odds and ends, with the Mayor and the Mace in front, and held up the traffic'. Sebastian Sprott is now Public Orator, and made a 'charming' speech about him.
Sends love and hopes to see her later.
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- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and essayist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts (Subject)
- George VI (1895-1952), King of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Elizabeth Angela Marguerite (1900-2002), Queen Consort of King George VI (Subject)
- Margaret Rose (1930-2002), Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Subject)
- Sprott, Walter John Herbert (1897-1971) known as Sebastian, psychologist and writer (Subject)