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Francesca my dearest,
Even the telephone has a most disturbing effect on me sometimes, particularly when you are using the other end of it. I am now confronted by a white piece of paper instead of a black plastic phone receiver and don't find the change makes me feel any cooler or calmer.
Darling Francesca, words are very unsatisfactory things sometimes and this is one of them. If I could hear you speaking them it would be a different matter – provided it was from somewhere nearer to me.
I suppose I ought to pull myself together and write business; I shall try. The reception: Jack Drummond1 is a very nice man. He is of course a very good biochemist but he has also travelled all over the world as far as I can make out and done it in all sorts of conditions …