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Happy Birthday!  I got you 1/2 doz fine         Imperial Hotel
                 linen hankies for you.         London England
                                                31 Aug 1950.
Dear Sid:

  We are just about packed up our stuff and I have been down and settled with the hotel the bill for [[pounds]] 17  5 shill, 3 pence, - a little less than you reckoned.  We have 6 lbs. left, 3 of which must still be paid for the [[cross out]] by [[cross out]] bike's passage & 10 shill for its collection.  It went off O.K.  Doris went over at noon to make sure of it.  She called up the baggage man & he said he would collect for it on the train tomorrow morning.  So we don't have too much. I think we will take a taxi tomorrow morning.  We found out it is about 5 shillings to Waterloo.

  I sent off the books in 2 packages beautifully done up by "Winsor", the chap who does such things, and by making a narrow slit with a pen knife on the side of the carton, the post mistress took them at book rate, - about 2 shilling & for 8 lbs. of books, a great saving.

  Today I have packed up at the museum & bade them all goodbye, and arranged for my little box to be sent.  They were all very nice and cordial to me.  I went up to see if there was any mail in botany, but none.  On the way down I rode with St. John & wished him "Bon Voyage" and said I was sorry not to see his wife again.  Yesterday late in the afternoon I made an hour's visit again to the National Gallery and today slipped down to the Tate[[?]] lake for a brief visit.  We went around to the Wallace Coll. before you left.

  Today I saw "Airplane Crash" as I rode to the Taber had a conniption fit till I got hold of a newspaper & saw it was in Egypt. I hope you had no incidents of any unpleasant sort and that you will take of yourself "for my sake" san yourself "driving back & forth to Beltville. Doris seems happy -- she is singing her little purchased songs with gusto now.  She also bought 5 shillings worth of books to read in passage - - the Lord only knows how we shall get them all in. 

  Now we are going down to Lyons for our final feed - Will write as soon as I get home -                  Love Doris