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Dear Pat: 

Your.letter ot 29 Apri~ arrived the other d&7 and.I 

was veFy haPPJ' to hear .from ,-ou. The.on17 thing that . grieved me about 7ov visit vaa that we had so little 

time toget~ just to obat. I feel that ve are kindred 

spirits, and I alRJ'S get a lot of pleasure _in discussing things with 7ou. -. . -· · 

Your very kind remarks· about the.,,.,._ in vh1ch the 

conference vas run are most tlattering. As a matter of 

ract., I think that here again we have proor that there is 

some sort or & guidance over evel'Tthing because I le&l'aed 

hov to de tbat so:rt of thing as a-result ot tbe Gove:rmumt•s 

having •de it posa1ble for_ me to attend c~erencea of a 

aimil&r Mtu:re both 1n this counti-7 and abroad. The mon97 

that the Govermumt spent in tba.t W&J' not onl7 was, tberetare, 

usetul at the time because I think I contributed materi&ll7 

to the work or those conterences, but also the exper1enoe gained paid a ta1rlt good dividend in 117 having the •mow 

hov• when OU1' conterence bad to be engineered. -

I note 70Ul' designation as.W.E.C.- repreaentat1Te on 

questions of teraiJlelog, and irithin a ahoiat time I hope 

_to have a document to send you. I bave been a bit remiss 

but I lcnov that 7ou and the others v111 understand tbat _ tirst· things must eome first and I doubt whether •tters 

on terminoloBJ' can be cons1dere4_among the latter in tb1• 

juncture. · · 

. - - I-got the biggest kick.out of the l&~t paragraph ot 

7our letter and I prom.ptlJ"-&ent that part o't it to Bar)?&M, bowing th&t she ha.a aa keen & sense-of huaor aa both 7ou 

and I~-thel'e .is a cert&int7 that she 11Ul get quite a kick 

out of it. 

Things &l'e moving a.long.at an incl'e&singly·rapid pace• but nov that the summer veather is hae and I can get out &n4 

play & bit of golf nov and then, I'teel pretty well. 

'With ve17 be11t regards, I &111 

_SiDcer~lT 7otat•, 

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Wireless Experimental Centre, 

Delhi. 

Dear ~ This is just to tell you that we are back home 

in India and to thank you for y9ur many kindnesses to 

us during our stay in Washington. I enjoyed myself particularly this time,feeling as I did that I was 

returning to a lot of old friends. I hope you will 

forgive me the liberty of congratulating you on your almost incredibly efficient job as Chairman, Without 

your expert handling we should not have achieved half 

so much nor should we have completed it in anything like the time we did. 

Please consider me as duly appointed to be 

the W.E.C. representative on terminology and suchl!}te questions, and please communicate with me on this 

subject as occasion demands. · 

Please give my respects to the family and tell 

your daughter that two more of the brutal British are 

back to cppress India! 

.Mr. William F. Freedman, 

Arlington Hall Post, 

Virginia. 
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D~ar Pat: 

Arlington Hall Station Arl~ton, Virginia U .s.A. 

18 August 1943 

I was p&rticularl7 pleased. to. _get tj)Ur. .note o,f JulJ' 22, . and eapec1all7 to know t~t 7ou·arrived back home satel7. · 

It would have been·oUl' great plM.am-e to have had 7ou here 

longer bee.a use _the moment I met 7ou over at Bletchley I was 

able to discer~ a killdred spiri~• It we contributed in &n7 . :Ya"t to •king 'JOUl' stay 1n Wasl,'lington intereat'ing and enjo'f&ble -l~am ver7 glad. Had 7ou been able to to ata7 longer there 

.would still'bave remained-sins ot omission so don•t teel too 

badly about 'th1ngs JOU imagine 70u could have done. I telt 

exactl7 the same Y&J' you \Udand J'Olll' guess on this score is 

100- correct. · . · . . 

'When I read Barbara th& t paragraph. or your letter which 

concerned her she was very pleased to think that you would' keep her in mind and no.·doubt When you come here tor 7our next conference she will have a number ot additional questions to pro- pound, which you w~ll no doubt be·able to a.nawer completel7 

to her sat1stact1on. '.•"I 

I have had one 'letter from John· Tiltman recentl7 and.it 

was written just before he started oft on his two-week holiday. 'In it he said, "I have taken the precaution of per-suading the 

deetor to give·me a medical cert1t1oate, not because there is 

an7th1ng much vrong·Yith ae but ao that any attempts to drag 

me b&ck from leave earl7 ~ght be frustl'&ted~" I agree with 

7ou that BP 1a a ver7 glooll.J little place so tar as the town , its< is concerned· but.the works" I.round extram.el7 interesting, 

not to .say r~ac1nat1.ng. 

· In the pl.st tn da7s we be.Te been ab1e· to •ke somevbat 

startling progress with the 7890 arrail' and there are high hopes 

ot being able to begin pushing out much valuable material. I 

have been eng&ged'in the pa.at da7 or two in assembling the 

figures for a eoaaider~ble increase 1n our atatf to work on 

th•ae problems. Appro:val tor. the ihcr.eaae will no doubt.be 

forthcoming, becauae we have· a high-p9wered paper trom the start I '• ' • •', 

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directing us to do so .and so. All 1D. all this vork is going along ver7 n1.cel7 and no doubt within a very short time the 

"coordinating. functions which ve.must exercise from here will · begin to manifest themselves and, I hope, will produce good· 

l'IBUlts. 

And now tor the moat important 'part.or this letter,· 

namel7 the recipe tor.ma.king "Old-F&shionedsa. You will . remember approximatel7 the size ot the glass, v1'dch 1a six 

ounces. Put i teaspoonful ot sugar. SJTUP in the bottom, add .. 2 or' drops ot Angostura bitters,,and then 2.tull jiggers or 

·Bourbon or what havet'7ou, a slice or lemon, a slice of orange . .,and, it you h&ve it, a maraseh1no cherrJ'. 1'1th about i teaspoonful of the maraschino liquid; then add a cube of ·ice. You need 

a muddler to at1ck in the glass so that people can stir it up. ·some.,people don't like it· sweet in which case reduce the amount 

ot sugar SJ'l9UP~ Three of these things·~etore d~er will fix 

an7bod7 up and it is guaranteed that the h~ess need have no 

··worries about the qualit7 ot the food,·thougb. I am not so sure 

about whether .she need to be apprehensive about its qr.ant1t7. 

Please.Vl'ite soon again and let us tr7 to keep in touch 

vith each etm.r. 

With eord1al greetings.to Mar~ and best wishes to 7ou, 

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The White· Bouse 

Anand Parbat 

'Delhi., India 

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William F. Friedman 

Direc.tor of Conmnmica tions 

'Research 

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July 22nd 1943. 

The White House 

Anand Parbat 

Delhi, India 

I have been meaning to write to you for 

a long time to thank you tor your kindness to me in 

both nf~icial and unofficial matters when I was in 

Washington. But I am terribly bad at writing letters and 

somehow or another nothing has happened about it to date, 

but please excuse ~e • Not only did I have a marvellous 

time while I was over there, but I feel that I learned a 

great deal, and above all had such·a valuable opportunity 

to get to know all of you who are engaged in the same 

work, 'and this I often feel is perhaps the most important thing of all. 

I am trying to get my ~ffairs here in order 

but there is still a lot of ~eeWJcy" to be made up, for I 

was away in all for almost-two and a h~lf months, and a 

tremendous amount of things accumulate in that time. I 

also have had.a lot-of £igh~s.to get an increa!£of staff· 

anq so on, and maybe in the end I shall get a reasonable 

amount of work done, but things take time out here. 

I am now cursing myself for all the hundred 

and one things that I meant to do in the States and did 

not in fact do in the end - but then that is always the way, and I imagine you may well have felt th~ same way after your 

return from England. · I wonderwhether your daughter is still 

pondering deeply the question of the f~ of India, and 

whether ~ managed to persuade her that the British were not 

quite such evil ogres as she thought ? Please give her 

my best regards and tell her that I shall be thinking up 

a perfect answer to all her questions for the next time that 

I am in Washington ! · Now there is one thing of great and immediate 

importance that I.want off you, and that is yOu.r recipe for mak1ng'bld-fashioned~ - would you mind very much? 

Not of course, ~hat we can get Bourbon, but we canJthese 

days,get some qpadian Club, and this is not so far remqved from it. 
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Have you heard from John Tiltman lately ? 

He is.quite hopeless at writing letters, so I imagine that 

you will not have heard. We had a letter from Tempe a few 

days ago, in which she said that they are soon to ~ove into 

the house next door - I expect that you heard some of the 

discussions that went on about this, the old.woman who owned 

it wanting double what it was worth and so on - I am very glad that they are not going to be rendered homeless, for 

there was a risk of this, ·which would have·meant tha~ John 

had to live by h~mself in a billet, wh~fh would have been 

horrid for him. I am not .over fond of tllis country, but I 

must say that I am rather glad that I don~t have to live at 

B.P, which I always thought a very gloomy little place. - Well, enough fo~ the present -.write and tell me 

the local gossip if ever you can spare the time. My 

respects to Madame, and please tell her that ii she persists in addressing me in forma~manner when next we meet I 

shall decline to recognizeiher ! 

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