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Station
Billingham, D. C. R.
Telephone.
Stockton, 66667

Wynyard Park,
Stockton on Tees.

Private

14th Dec [1936]
Lady Londonderry

My dear B. B.

I have been meaning to write
to you for ages - to tell you
of our trip - but everything has fled
from heart and mind during the
Crisis. You, who will have seen
all the American papers - can well
believe on what tenterhooks every one
has been. The Balmoral party was
the crowning point. It is difficult
not to blame those of his household or
friends, who as the papers say - were highly