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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.—Congress will probably reject the plans for an interim Government, though it is doubtful what they will do about the constituent assembly. The date of his departure is likely to be deferred again. Lady Cripps has been recalled to England because her daughter is ill.
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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
June 24. 46
My dearly Beloved.
I have your letter of June 19 {1} before me as I write. It is indeed for both of us a trial of pa-tience. These people talk & deliberate with a sense of all eternity in front of them. Their promise of a decision are postponed from day to day & the chance of a satisfactory one ebbs & ebbs. It is now as certain as anything can be in this uncertain land tht Congress will reject the plans for an interim Governt. What they will do about the Constituent Assembly is at the moment of writing still in doubt. But my hopes are not very high. Some time I will tell you much about it. But people start coming to interview us at 7 AM, & the last doesnt leave much before midnight. And nothing whatever comes of it! And the heat is stifling.
In my last letter to EK I told her tht I expected to be leaving here on Thursday or Friday. But delays & delays & delays make this now unlikely. Nevertheless I still hope to get away within a few days from now. But it may be again a case of hope deferred.
Lady Cripps having been called out here to a sick husband is being recalled to a still more sick daughter. So her case is far far worse than ours. I am terribly sorry for her.
I am glad tht Doty continues to go from triumph to triumph. It is good tht life contains these days of exuberant satisfaction.
I kiss you my beloved. I love you & adore you.
Your very own
Boy.
You may care to see the enclosed from Lord Halifax to whom I wrote about his OM. Keep it among my letters to you.
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The abbreviation ‘tht’ for ‘that’ occurs a few times.
{1} PETH 8/85.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867-1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
- Indian National Congress (Subject)
- Cripps, Dame Isobel (1891-1979), overseas aid organizer, wife of Sir Stafford Cripps (Subject)
- Doty, Madeleine Zabriskie (1877-1963), American feminist and social reformer (Subject)
- Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley (1881-1959), 1st Earl of Halifax, politician and diplomat (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.