DAVID

saying that she had been meaning to write to you for weeks and weeks to congratulate you on your Danish knighthood. I should certainly think you earned it. Was it fun? I am now an honorary doctor of Essex (!) university. I went to stay with my old friend Veronica Nicholson, who has a house at Finchingfield. Jim and Kit were staying with the Crittalls. John is some big potato on the University board. It was so nice to see him - it must be the first time for about 25 years... with a postscript that her sister Felicity is dreadfully ill in St Georges. Some kind of virus. A dangerous one..., 2 sides postcard, 24 Halsey Street, London, 15th August