Transcription: We are always keen on news from friends at Geneva & I am sorry that my most frequent correspondent is Mr. Henneberger! However by passings round letters amongst the Wilson, Janet Smith, Emily Johnston & occasionally others we manage to get along. No-one I have spoken to here has ever seen any sign of letters from Geneva being opened except by the British censorship, so you can speak freely - certainly some of our Swiss friends do so! I sympathise very much with the hard struggle you are having to keep going; I am sure it is right to hold to Geneva, & to keep things up there as much as you can. I see in the Times that £75,000 is provided in the budget estimates for the League contribution (the I.L.O. contribution being a separate vote apparently -suppose because it comes on the Ministry of Labour vote) - they add that the U.K. share is just over 20% of the total - is this right? I gave a public lecture the other day in which I said that in the revised League after the war (as to which I am very confident) the budget ought to be a lot bigger than it was and that I personally could make out a very good case for believing that if the budget had been doubled on an average from 1920 to 1940 the League might have succeeded & war been avoided. I believe this is true though such -things cannot be proved. I shall send you a copy when it is printed. Well my dear John I will stop now - the Secretariat is never far from my thoughts & if I can do anything to help it you know you have only to tell me. Pse thank Miss Harris for her note & tell her we have seen the Buxtons - he was much better again - we've seen the Dalals too on leave from Glasgow, in very good form. Remember me to all friends - I will write to Martin & Aghnides & Vigier in due course, I hope - The very best of luck to you, Yours ever, Frank

Transcription: P1/10 (9) 15, Banbury Rd. Oxford 20. 3 . 41 My dear John, I take the chance of a day at home, owing to a cold, to wite & thank you - rather belatedly I fear, for your last letter. It is at the office so I can't give the date. The usual 'no time' excuse is really rather true for me these days. My office hours are fairly long. I generally have some work to bring home in the evening, & every other Sunday: I go straight from office to Home Guard duties 2 nights a week, & parade every Sunday morning - & what with digging up the turf of the small gardens at back & front of this house, & undertaking also a small allotment on one of the College grounds, I have lots of digging & sowing which must be done before breakfast whenever it is fine. Add that I have given 2 or 3 lectures on League affairs, which mean much preparatory work for me, and you will see that my time is really very fully occupied. Of course one is much happier so. Well my dear John you can imagine that the American  decisions have been tremendously cheering news for us here - not that the country's morale particularly needed a tonic, but we believe that once all Europe realises that the United States, like us, are resolved on Hitler's ultimate defeat, it cannot fail to have a great effect. Even in Germany & Italy they won't be able to keep it hidden from the people.

Transcription: Our property is still safe. The other side got the worst. We noticed Charlie's Bank standing alone as we we to our agent last week. So I wrote to him tho' I hav not done so for years & also told him you'd been ask about his son. He says the boy was posted "missing" on 5th May, & since then there has been no news. They had a terrible experience on Sunday week but his wife & maid have gone away since then & he feels more content. He wished to be remembered to you. I hope you are seeing some lovely things in that old garden. We know how lonely it is for you without the family & how many problems you are up against. I somehow think we're in the worst time now. The day will dawn and light and peace come to this tortured world. Had/letter from Elsie 21st April. She & Ann were staying on at Ardagh while the others went back first. With love from us both, Gretta. P.S. Muriel has been a brick.  She says we'll get strength to endure.

Transcription: Left page   A letter from Elsie, understamped for the air mail, was posted on 29th January & delivered 11th June - 133 days.  Business card   MR. DANIEL T. BRIGHAM The New York Times BAHNHOFPLATZ 5 TLE. 26533 BERNE Adress on a piece of envelop Arthur Sweetser 7 Newlin Road Princeton, New Jersey  Right page   Oakland Cottage Belfast Road Bangor, Co. Down N. Ireland. 13th May 1941. Dear Jack, Have been wanting to write you for some time but it's hard to get down to it these days. I hope you received my wire last week. Don't worry about us, remember 'all is well'. Our trust is in God. We have had some very bad nights lately, but we've been brought through, & with the first streak of dawn quietness again & the song of our little thrush in the garden reminding us of the things that will endure. Ella McNinch came all the way to see if we were safe on the Sunday after. Wasn't it kind of her. Muriel was in bed with a touch of flu & was cheered to see her. Ella sent us some "wenda" primrose & we got them in. Harry also came over one day for an hour or so. They are all well and things quiet in that part. We got the silver set for Baby here as we couldn't get to town then. After the first heavy raid I was anxious about more papers of ours & we went up to see Wilson. He gave them to us to keep with the others here, as he said they would be safer, but he said he'd make a note of them all. The building in which his office is was badly shattered but his office at the back still carrying on. That old Library where Lewis and you spent so many hours in your youth has been destroyed practically.

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