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Subjects include: having just received a letter from Hilda dated February enclosing a Christmas letter from John [PEN 1/2/1/4/14]; sympathising with Hilda regarding the attack on Crete and telling her that Lieutenant Colonel J S Blunt had arrived back in Cairo from Crete and said that John was fine and enjoying himself; news [of her children] Paddy and Joan [Engelbach], and that O. [Oliver] Myers, 2nd Lieutenant Brian Emery (as a Staff Major) and R. E. Molly [or Holly?] were in Cairo; that Guy and Winnie Brunton had gone to South Africa; and measures taken at the [Cairo] Museum including Rex [Engelbach] and O Guerard taking it in turns to sleep there. |
