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Answering letters; an acknowledgment of DC's 60 th birthday; a packet from Canada and the last of the stamps; censors, Germans and officials lumped together; celebrating the Centenary and putting the progranmme in a safe place; Alice, displaced persons and finding a job for a 14 year old; old age and the dark; articles and matters of The Spectator; teachers and a student are billeted with TRG; a useless life.

Attached to the letter is a customs declaration for a book sent from D.R .Harris, Toronto to Miss Stuart, Sherborne School for Girls. Letter contents: a headmistress considers exporting her school to Canada and TRG lends her a copy of the Book; the travels and travails of its return with the perceived value by the Canadian government; a very literary week; Methuen to republish TRG's Virgil; an opinion of Bobbie Knowles; missing Carlile; an appeal for news of George Gilmore and the Baptist establishment of Toronto; Richard has bought a house; the weather is East Anglian; 'what to do?'

The first being last, the last being first; an uncensored letter; patience a virtue or a minor excellence?; a thanks for enclosures (not present); Coulton enjoys a visit and sends an article (not present) about Canadian politics to TRG; Gordon and Grant compared; more about George Gilmore and his suitability to be Chancellor (of Queens University); other people interested in the post; the health of John Macnaughton and the death of W.L. Goodwin; poor sales of History of Queens; an almost complete set of proofs for TRG's latest book and what to say in the preface; Richard's movements and better weather.

Letters and parcel received; an author likes people to like his books; paper and binding difficulties delay a publication; pleasure in testimonials; the problems of reading and writing in bed; visiting family members; time and warmth.

Letters received in the wrong order cause confusion; family visits and other news; the cold and lack of fuel; crocuses and a book about water; a postal system in disarray; more time out of bed plus a bit of outdoors walking; answers to a literary critic; local and family news including health matters; a visitor.

A food parcel is received from Canada and the time it took to arrive compared to that of a letter; TRG says thank you in a way that Macauley might not have done; exotic fruit; railings are made into battleships but privet is a substitute in Cambridge; a word about British and Canadian politics; Albert Cohoe's 'camp' and thoughts about Lake Simcoe; buying a second hand copy of TRG's book is upstaged by a reprint at a higher price; a recalcitrant paper block leads to possibly illegible writing; "a policeman by every waste basket"; TRG is debarred from new trousers with the application of second hand pyjamas or maybe a kilt; using ration coupons, would it be safer not to wash at all?; TRG has been rereading Dickens; short walks, lazy days, broken nights; on always being behind one's relatives and their expectations; a pen that won't write, words left out and foozled.

Attached is duplicated extract from Queens University recording their pleasure in the dedication of TRG's book The Challenge of the Greek to QU and wishing the author well; Letter contents: thanks are offered for good wishes and memories of a birthday celebrated in Canada; still walking to college; packets from Canada and a question; TRG is to give a lecture on Canada and ponders on suitable contents; TRG's reading and a recommendation for DC; more on walking and an improvement in health ; a letter is published in the Globe and Mail and TRG wishes that DC would lend them a photograph; Cambridge is provided with 'static water'; a wish to emigrate to the Falkland Islands away from officialdom; Janet likes the Noodles but there are problems with the fruit juice concentrate; books which appear in publications and improvement in Canadian production standards; growing old is 'the only way to stay alive'.

TRG is busy writing and expecting a letter; arrival of Richard and an alert spent in the cellar of 67 Glisson Road; the enemy is perhaps making mischief; Richard is interested in his voyage; reuniting the brothers and other family members; an epidemic of brigadiers; lecturing to the British army about Canada; new light on HA Calvin; TRG writes more classical essays and a suggestion to read Oliver Wendell Holmes; an essay on Cicero and his books is discussed; keeping TRG out of mischief whilst the Germans send over lone aircraft; Hitler's 'melancholy satisfaction'; Richard visits College and approves of the buildings of Chapel Court; TRG asks DC to buy a silver dollar on his behalf and to keep it until a future visit; TRG doesn't like the new stamps.

Mary Coulton, daughter of G G Coulton, is going to Toronto to teach. Asks that she be contacted on arrival and made welcome.

Sends travel plans for a visit to the US and Canada. Hopes to meet friends.