must have been worrying a bit when you had no mail from me for a while, but our mail would be held back for a few weeks while we were getting ready and moving over to Italy. I always manage to write once a week except on one or two rare occasions. That was jolly decent of Mr Souness giving you some money to send me a parcel, thank him very much for me. I should get the parcel in this next mail and when it arrives I will let you know by cable. I know old Eamie (?) Nichol from Bluff and I expect he is out of hospital by now. I got that parcel of tobacco you sent for last Christmas some time ago and I wrote to you immediately thanking you for it, so I think the letter must have gone astray. What a pity you did not get to see the Kiwi Concert party, it is a marvellous show but still as long as you heard it over the radio it wasn’t so bad. I have