Thank you very much for your letters and card for Tim’s birthday.

I thought that you would like to know that we had a lovely weekend when Suks came to stay.

Many many thanks for your long letter in December.

Letter from Fern, Monroe, David and Aaron to Phyllis Naidoo.

Sunday afternoon with the mattresses spread out on the living room floor from where I lie and watch the monsoon rains steadily falling.

I'm assuming that you have returned to Lesotho according to your plans. How is everyone down south. We've gotten a number of pretty sad letters from Lesotho saying that they miss you. I know they will be really happy to have you back.

It has been a rather gloomy past few days since the elections ... and people around here are saying in a none too joking tone that they are looking for the next plane out of the country.

Here at Birla House in Delhi where Gandhi was assassinated there are prayers today as the country celebrates what would have been his 114 birthday.

YES! We got the Cosmos! They are beautiful and the thought of you carefully cutting them out and gluing them on the background sheets touches us as much as the cosmos themselves do! Thanks so much ... and speaking of gluing, so many people have commented on the scrapbook you made.