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- 24 Mar. 1946 (Produção)
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Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.—The Cabinet mission were met at Delhi by the Viceroy, whose bereavement has visibly affected him. At Karachi they met the Governor of Sind, and Alexander joined the mission. Reflects on their busy programme.
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The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
Mch 24. 46
My dear
I have just arrived, after a perfect journey. It is an entirely novel experience for me to be a “great” personage & to be received everywhere with the state befitting my position. But it doesnt embarrass me any more than it would to peel potatoes with a cottager’s wife.
Though it is midday it is surprisingly cool just like a delightful June day in England & there is a bowl of roses on a side table.
The Viceroy met us at the aerodrome & took me with him here, the other ministers following in other cars. His bereavemt has visibly affected him {1}. He looks haggard & weary.
We spent a very pleasant evening with the Governor of Sind {2} on our arrival at Karachi yesterday. Albert Alexander came a little later & has come on with us in our plane this morning.
We have a very full programme of work in front of us & an immense number of people to see during the next fortnight.
I am to be fetched by an A D C & taken to lunch in a few minutes. So I will finish this letter now with all my love to my darling
Your own
Boy
This letter may reach you before th 2 I wrote at Tunis & one posted at Karachi {3}.
Love to May Lydia & the girls.
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The letter contains a few characteristically abbreviated words, including ‘th’ for ‘the’.
{1} Lord Wavell’s son-in-law, Major the Hon. Simon N. Astley, had died at Quetta on 16 March following a motor accident (L. G. Pine, New Extinct Peerage).
{2} Sir Francis Mudie.
{3} PETH 6/146–8.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867-1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Assunto)
- Wavell, Archibald Percival (1883-1950), 1st Earl Wavell, army officer and Viceroy of India (Assunto)
- Mudie, Sir Robert Francis (1890-1976), knight, administrator in India (Assunto)
- Alexander, Albert Victor (1885-1965), 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician and co-operator (Assunto)
- Pethick, Ethel Mary (1869-1948), suffragette (Assunto)
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