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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