TELEGRAMS & TELEPHONE.
DOCHGARROCH 2.

DOCHFOUR,
INVERNESS, N.B.

30th November, 1937.

My dear Van Thal,

I am sorry to have been so long in writing
but I have had a very serious illness since my accident
and it has made letter writing very difficult. I
hope when I get home I may see you again at Windsor.

TELEPHONE, WINDSOR 561

THE DEANERY

WINDSOR CASTLE

Dec.5th,1936.

My dear van Thal,

It would be very
nice dining with you at Rules before
the Play, but I should like to say
that I don't suppose it is a Play
where smoking is allowed and I like
to smoke a cigar after dinner. So
we might make it 7.15, if that would
suit you as well.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
25 Russell Square
LONDON, W.C.1

14 February 1964

Dear Sir,

Your letter to The Times yesterday deals with a matter that
has interested me for some time.

I heard the expression first about 5 years ago in New Zealand.
It was used by a naturalised New Zealander of Netherlands extraction,
a man of quite outstanding intellectual and executive ability who was
an honours graduate in Political Science at Victoria University of
Wellington where I teach. He uses the expression fairly frequently
and, as I know him well, I asked him last October, before I left to
come here on leave, where he had acquired it. He could not remember.
But he told me that he had heard the expression himself very frequently.
His wife occasionally uses it. The only other person whom I have
heard use the expression is my former secretary, an English girl who
went out to New Zealand about 10 years ago.

I suspect that the expression was given currency by some popular
singer or by some comedian.

Mr Herbert van Thal,
Reform Club,
104 Pall Mall
LONDON

John Barker & Co
 John Barker & Co. )
KENSINGTON HIGH STREET.
LONDON, W.8.

Telephone:
WESTERN 5432 (EXTEN )

Telegrams:
"BARKER'S, KENSINGTON, LONDON."

TAB/VDC/JD.

(CHAIRMAN'S OFFICE.)

22nd August, 1945.

Dear Mr. Van Thal,

24 AUG 1945

Thanks for your letter. I have no
doubt that the time is arriving when we must give
consideration to the future.

I should like to congratulate you upon
the success which I feel you have achieved, and the
assistance you have given the country during your
association with the Ministry of Food. It has been
a great effort, and I have the fullest admiration
for the many like yourself who have given their
time at their own expense to be of service to their
country during the past six years. It must have
been a tremendous experience.

We have not given any real consideration
to the creation of any new positions, up to the
present. We have a number of senior staff in the
Services, and until such time as they return we are
rather loath to make any major variation in the
personnel.

I presume it will be some time before
you sever your connection with the Ministry but I
have no doubt you will be down this way in the near
future, when please give me a call and I shall be
delighted to have a chat.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

H. Van Thal, Esq.,
London Divisional Food Office,
10/12, Cork Street,
LONDON, W. 1.