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Thanks Hella for the parcel. Details what she has been listening to on the Third Programme.

Discusses plans for Hella's visit to England.

Makes plans to see Hella if she visits England in June. Hopes for a reunion of the Weyls, Newmans and Whiteheads. Wonders if she could fly over to Switzerland to have more time with Hella when Max and the boys are at Borth-y-Gest and looked after by Miss Jones. Sends her sympathy about Margareta's miscarriage. Describes her boys reactions to their schools. Mentions her writing about her childhood. Refers to Max's 'Third Programme appreciation of Hardy'.

Annouces that she has signed up for a round trip to New York on the Queen Elizabeth. Hopes to visit Vera Dammann, Mabbie Schmiderer, Christine Price and most of all Hella. Anticipates that Yda will travel with her. Mentions William, Edward and Max.

Sympathises with Hella about her illness. Expresses her relief that Hella is able to travel to Zurich. Regrets that she will not be able to meet the Weyls in Switzerland and wonders if they could return to America via England. Complains about the state of the country. Describes her charwomen. Questions the competancy of the Labour Government. Refers to Stephen Spender's 'European Witness'. Thanks Hella for sending her MSS with Henry. Discusses how to educate William and Edward. Observes the feminism in Appy Ogilvy that annoyed Francis, Appy's husband. Reports the death of Max's mother. Mentions that she is writing about her childhood in Berwick-on-Tweed.

Asks if Mrs Panofsky's illness is serious. Enquires about the Weyls plan to go to China and reveals her own hopes to take her children to Switzerland in 1948. Reports that Max seems happy in Princeton but worries that he is not making the most of his opportunities for talk about his project with other academics. Hopes to get her map made by Paul and Marjorie Abbatt. Repeats the information about 'Ten Letter Writers' that she acquired from Leonard Woolf. Describes her trip to the Observatory and King's College Chapel. Mentions Michael and Margareta and Hella's sister. Refers to the transportation of the Fanny Kemble letters.

Asks urgently for news of the Weyls. Details her arrangements for living in Cambridge whilst Max is in America. Reports that William is enjoying the Byron House School and Edward is having lessons privately including music with Mrs Ellis. Describes Appy's daughter Mairi Ann. Mentions her letters from Mag Flexner, whose broken marriage reminds her of Appy's, and refers to Cyril Connolly's "The Unquiet Grave". Covers Nancy Raphael's troubles, a picnic with the Inghams, and Max's movements between visiting Turing at the Nat. Physical Laboratory and visiting the Blacketts in Manchester. Suggest that Mabbie Schmiderer might house her journals and MSS. Expresses her sadness that they left Cross Farm to be neglected by tenants.

Thanks Hella for the parcel of food and clothes. Describes their clothing ration and the improvement in quality and availability of goods. Covers Max's plans to travel to America, a grant he is receiving for his project, Lyn's plans to move back to Cambridge, and William's bicycle accident. Mentions Appy Ogilvy, Elsa and Yda. Complains about the lack of social contact caused by the difficulty of entertaining on rations. Describes her garden. Asks after Hella's sister, and their plans for the summer.

Suggests that Max could collect the Fanny Kemble letters when he visits Princeton. Mentions Lady Butler. Writes that Max will also reimburse the cost of posting her journals and letters back to England. Reveals her plan to let the house in Manchester and return to Cambridge whilst Max is in America. Reports that she is continuing her attempt to publish her world map. Sends news of Appy Ogilvy, and Henry Whitehead. Describes the schooling of Edward and William. Asks after Margareta. Sends her sympathies about Maynard Keynes.

Thanks Hella for the parcels. Complains of food shortages. Describes her evening routine and writes that the fears that made her argue with Max and Patrick Blackett the year before have been realised. Registers her disappointment with the boys' new schools. Reports the death of Professor Black.