I was despairing – no news of son for all this time – half expending to drop in on me in the U.K. So you returned your ear-drum.

Carole and Steve continue to live in Washington DC. I suspect that you mixed up their address with someone else. What you wrote on the envelope looks like a New York City street address (perhaps their old address when they were in graduate school at Columbia upon their return from Harare?).

Thank you for your letter of 7th October - the post does seem to be quick these days. It was good to hear from you, sounding more like the Phyllis I used to know in Lesotho - house full of guests, looking after other people, mind still turning round the legacy of apartheid!