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DESMOND FLOWER MC

BRYEN GENTRY

WILLIAM ANGELL

DAVID ASCOLI TD

NICHOLAS FLOWER

KENNETH PARKER

Dear Bertie,

Your letter of 9 June touched me deeply. How kind, and how thoughtful, and how like you.

My ghastly dilemma is that my present wife is an angel and we have 3 famous children - but we cannot communicate. Into my life has walked suddenly someone who talks. The same language. So it's really rather like Wilke Collins - I either throw my cap over the windmill or I assume a stiff upper lip - in the best Victorian