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Tuesday evening
[Probably March 1942]
Woodmuir,
Nether Beacon
Lichfield
My dear Violet
As you say in your
letter "it is lovely to get
good news" and I am so
happy to know the joy it is
to your Gerard to hear
that, that dear Ralph is
fit &

& has


[romotion, he is
young to be in the position
of a Lt. Colonel in the Aemy