305 ORPHANAGE ROAD
ERDINGTON
BIRMINGHAM
November 23rd. 1936

My Dear Betty,

That was a happy peaceful evening, and I enjoyed it immensely. I hope the verdict on my presentability for a companion for you was favourable, Horrible if the verdict is unfavourable!

I took a bus after all, that tram decided to roost for seven minutes and I couldn’t bear sitting caged in a tram all that time!    A bus came along and as I descended a kindly Midland Red pulled up and so I was home in great style in record time, and was in my room by half past eleven, or soon afterwards.  And so peacefully and contentedly to bed, after an interval of reading Hakluyt.

I do hope all will be well for Thursday evening,  and I shall try to have nothing on at all, so that there will be no waste of time whilst you sit in Pattisons.    It is the night before the Dairy show and I might have to hold a final rehearsal, but I am planning things to avoid it.    The excuse is that it is wiser to give the kids a free night before the show for them to go to bed early.    Of course, what we ought to have is a week-end at least, these evenings ending at ten thirty are most tantalising.

Victor is broadcasting a composition of his own on Thursday at a quarter to eight, and we can listen to that. He’s conducting the Philharmonic who will play it.    I’ve seen the score and heard bits of it on the piano and it sounds most exciting.

And at that point Arnold called for me to go to the Heraldic Exhibition, so I had to stop! This is written later, at the dairy, in between rehearsals. So it’s not a proper lettert after all! I’ll write properly later, &, all being well, we meet on Thursday. Speed the dayYour David
You are a grand person, aren’t you!