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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.—Is sorry she has cancelled her visit to the Isle of Wight. The political situation and the date of his return are still uncertain. He spoke to Field Marshall Montgomery while he was at Delhi.
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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
June 21. 46
My own dear Heart.
I am distressed to receive a letter from EK today dated June 17 telling me tht you have can-celled your trip to I W, & to realise from yours of 16th tht you are doing so because you are expecting me home in a day or two from now. The fact is tht with these unaccountable people I cant tell in the very least when I shall be leaving for home. It may be at the end of next week, it may be well into July. I nearly sent you a telegram to-day urging you not to cancel but I realised you had taken your decision—no doubt so as not to have the uncertainty hanging over you—& any advice now would only disconcert you. So my darling I accept your decision, I wish I was able to take better advantage of it, but I know you would not wish me to hurry an hour if it involves any danger of making a favourable result less likely.
And indeed I am not very sanguine. But the political barometer here goes so up & down tht I really don’t know from day to day wht the final result will be.
As I have not very much to do while I am waiting for the parties, who are once more like the implements in Alice’s croquet party constantly getting up & going away, I have borrowed a copy of Ludwig’s Life of Bethoven† & have started reading it. It takes one into an entirely different world, & relieves the mind. But the weather is so hot & humid tht I constantly drop off to sleep while reading it.
You have probably seen that Field Marshall Montgomery has been here. I had a long private talk with him the other day. I have of course also met Auchinleck. There was a picture in our paper to day of the 3 Field Marshalls (M, A & Wavell) walking together in the Viceregal grounds.
Cripps took lunch today with us in th sitting room for the first time since his illness.
I am very well. I am delighted to know tht you are. My dear blessed & beloved. In deep longing to see you
Your own
Boy.
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This letter includes the abbreviated forms ‘tht’ for ‘that’, ‘th’ for ‘the’, and ‘wht’ for ‘what’.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867-1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
- Montgomery, Bernard Law (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, army officer (Subject)
- Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre (1884-1981), knight, army officer (Subject)
- Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford (1889-1952), knight, politician and lawyer (Subject)
- Wavell, Archibald Percival (1883-1950), 1st Earl Wavell, army officer and Viceroy of India (Subject)
- Knowles, Esther Edith (1895-1974), secretary to Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.