Item 36 - Letter from Tet Htoot to R. C. Trevelyan

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45 Bernard St, W.C.1. - Received a 'grand Xmas card' from Bob on Friday ["A Dream"?]: it cheered him up just when he was feeling miserable because of a cold. Read the poem aloud to a friend, who liked it very much. Hopes to hear Bob read it aloud when he comes to the Shiffolds, which he hopes to do by about Christmas. Re-read last year's card a few weeks ago and likes it, but this is even better. Adds a postscript saying that Jack Dodd and John [Luce] did not come on Saturday: if he does not hear from John, he will send [a Christmas present from Bob? see 4/119] to Gloucester [where John's relatives live] and ask them to forward it to him. Thinks John is upset that Tet Htoot has not been in touch; this is because Tet Htoot 'wasn't in a fit state to write to him, and the sort of letter [he] would write... in such moods would not cheer [John] up & would bore him to tears'. Bob's card now gives him an 'excuse' to John and 'make amends'.