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Office of Cabinet Delegation (as 6/153).—They are interviewing many interesting people. He and Alexander hope to visit the Taj on Sunday, and the mission have now received the required formal invitation to go Kashmir at Easter.
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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
April 9 (To be Posted 10th)
Dearest One
It is a refreshment to sit down before dinner & commune with you after the heat of midday & the burden of the interviews & talks. And I have just had a letter from you dated April 5 from Fways saying you have had my letters of Mch 28 & 30. I have an earlier letter (April 3) from you also to acknowledge & an enclosure from Lydia for which please give her my love & thanks. You ask whether you shall address me to 2 Willingdon Crescent or wht; it doesnt matter at all. So long as the letter comes out in the official bag it will be delivered to me by Turnbull to wherever I am. Equally I presume when I write a letter to you & send it to the India Office tht they will send it to 11 O S or to Fourways according to wht E K tells them.
We are seeing a great many interesting people both formally & informally but it is sometimes rather drowsy work listening to their soft & droning voices. Sir C P Ramaswami Aiyar (who was in the cartoon I sent you yesterday “Sir C P”) was an exception with his vigorous & determined voice, & Joshi whom we saw this afternoon was most interesting. I am sending you the latest programme. You will see we are to meet 2 women on Thursday.
We shall very soon have to be thinking in earnest about our method of tackling the main problem or problems. But of course this has in a sense been going on all the time.
I had a swim in the swimming pool yesterday evening & again tonight. It is quite a large bath & it takes the heat out of one’s body. Alexander & I hope to go to see The Taj Sunday morning. The Cashmir trip at Easter awaits an invitation from the Ruler about which there appears to be some hitch. (now resolved 10. iv. 46)
I have had nice letters from Mrs Subbarayan & also from Mrs Hamid Ali whom I think you know.
I send you an early picture of me taken at Karachi which you may nt yet have seen.
I am most interested in your Fways news & your a/c of your amazing hot weather. I do hope there are no more frosts. Here it continues to get hotter & there is a haze about all the time which makes it somewhat humid. (102º yesterday 9th)
My dear I think of you with such love.
Your own
Boy
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There are a few characteristically abbreviated words, including ‘wht’ for ‘what’.
{1} PETH 6/151–2. Lady Pethick-Lawrence’s letter of 5 April does not survive.
{2} ‘April 3’ interlined. The brackets have been supplied. This letter does not survive.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867-1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
- Knowles, Esther Edith (1895-1974), secretary to Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
- Ali, Shareefah Hamid (1883-1971), Indian social reformer (Subject)
- Ramaswami Aiyar, Sir Chetpat Pattabhirama (1879-1966) knight, Indian judge (Subject)
- Joshi, Narayan Malhar (1879-1955) Indian trade union leader (Subject)
- Alexander, Albert Victor (1885-1965), 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician and co-operator (Subject)
- Subbarayan, Kailash Radhabai (1891-1960), Indian women's rights activist and social reformer (Subject)
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.