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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.—Reflects on the colourfulness of Indian life. The mission are awaiting the results of their statement, and he has made his broadcast and addressed the press.—(Later.) Jinnah threatens not to answer for three or four weeks, but others have made encouraging signs.
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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
May 18. 46
My own very dear Beloved.
I have had to say to myself tht it is no good letting my heart or my head be obsessed with the idea tht I want to be home for 26th May. I came out here to do a certain job & I have just got to stay till it’s finished; & that’s that. As soon as it is finished I shall come home as fast as I can, you may be sure, to be with my old love again, & the day I come back & see you whatever it be according to the calendar will be our 26th May—our 45th anniversary!
I am so delighted to hear in your letters of how full your days have been with pleasurable activity. It is music in my ears; for I do so love to know tht you are enjoying yourself.
As for me my life here is full of colour & experience. Colour on the physical plane. The powerful sun, the flaming trees, the flashing birds, the darting chipmunks & lizards. The trees are red (Gold Mahar), gold (Cassia Sistilla) & apple-blossom tinted (Cassia Nodosa). Colourful personalities Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Wavell, {1} to say nothing of people like Meliscent Shepherd, Mrs Naidu, Agatha Harrison & our own delegations & the secretaries.
So far in all the “changing vicissitudes of this mortal life” I have been upheld to keep my balance & my health. I eat well, digest well, sleep well & remain unfretted, remembering as Maud {2} said in Kashmir tht it is nt I that am doing it but He.
So my beloved I am patient & I am sure you will be also to await the day of our recession when it comes in His good will. I do not think it will be so very long before the work is finished here but it is still quite impossible to say.
Our D-day has come & gone, & we are awaiting its result. Our message {3} has not so far evoked any violent antagonism. I have made my broadcast, {4} addressed my press conference, met individual editors & so far it has been sunny weather. All this may be dashed at any minute but let us at any rate bask in the sunshine while it lasts!
Evening. As I anticipated, some clouds have darkened the sun & Jinnah threatens not to give us an answer for 3 or 4 weeks! {5} I really don’t know what to make of it. But there are still many encouraging signs. Brailsford, Sapru & many others have sent us delightfully enthusiastic congratulations. At the moment it looks as if Congress will come in. I see Lord Samuel spoke some very kind words about me in the H of Lords on Thursday May 16. I hope you got a copy.
And so my darling, my true heart, my beloved, my dear Wife I send you my love & blessing for May 26.
Your very own loving Boy.
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There are a number of irregular abbreviations, including ‘tht’ for ‘that’.
{1} Comma supplied.
{2} Maud Coote.
{3} The statement by the Cabinet Delegation and the Viceroy, published on the 16th. See Transfer of Power, vol. vii, No. 303.
{4} See Transfer of Power, vol., vii, No. 303. Comma supplied.
{5} See Transfer of Power, vol., vii, No. 322. The word ‘weeks’ is underlined three times.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867-1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Sujet)
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948), Indian political leader and religious and social reformer (Sujet)
- Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889-1964), Prime Minister of India (Sujet)
- Jinnah, Mohamed Ali (1876-1948), creator of Pakistan (Sujet)
- Wavell, Archibald Percival (1883-1950), 1st Earl Wavell, army officer and Viceroy of India (Sujet)
- Shephard, Lena Meliscent (1885-1973), campaigner for women’s rights in India (Sujet)
- Naidu, Sarojini (1879-1949), politician and poet (Sujet)
- Harrison, Agatha Mary (1885-1954), industrial welfare reformer and unofficial diplomat (Sujet)
- Brailsford, Henry Noel (1873-1958), journalist and author (Sujet)
- Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur (1875-1949), knight, Indian nationalist and political mediator (Sujet)
- Samuel, Herbert Louis (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel, politician (Sujet)
- MacCarthy, Maud (1882-1967), Irish musician and mystic (Sujet)
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