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Fri 9-Nov-56:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saw Lord Mayor’s parade [<\/i>Lord Mayor\u2019s Show<\/i><\/a>]. Went up Bloomsbury to British museum – had lunch with Peter Gladwynn & co. Went to BOAC looked at more shops.<\/i><\/h6>\n
Sat 10-Nov-56:\u00a0 Went to Beacontree Heath on bus. Looked round city – Westminster Abbey & Parliament – went Chelsea at night, met Rex Reinits<\/i><\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/p>\n

Howard Hotel<\/a><\/h6>\n
9 Nov \u201856<\/h6>\n
London 9.30pm<\/h6>\n

My dearest and very missed Dorothy,<\/p>\n

There is really no way of getting what one feels into the \u201cHeigh yar, Sweetie\u201d, part of a letter \u2013 It all has to be inferred from the formal and well-worn adjectives which one has to use to someone with whom they wanted to be so close. To be inside their skin, with the same blood but with different harmonics of the heart. Get me? I\u2019ve had gloomy news \u2013 The best the Air Line Co. can do for me is 28th Nov from Zurich. I had a message here at 5.30pm to say so. As no work is done over the weekend, I can\u2019t ask them any further details. On Monday I\u2019ll suggest if there are any cancellations near that date \u2013 to let me have them if I get 2 or 3 days\u2019 notice. However, I don\u2019t suppose a week will make that much difference after all this time. But I was looking forward to being with my family on the 25th<\/sup>. (To say nothing of the extra dough needed for accommodation \u2013 However let\u2019s skip it, and hope for something better. As it is, I should be very pleased. I had some black moments yesterday \u2013 when I thought I might even be marooned till God knows when. Bookings are building up again \u2013 because of people wishing to be home by Xmas. So keep your fingers (& your legs) crossed for me till you have me back with you all. But I\u2019m warning you \u2013 wear your rosiest glasses. I\u2019m trained down pretty keenly \u2013 not an ounce of fat anywhere \u2013 even on your personal part of me. I haven\u2019t seen much of London yet apart from the shopping area \u2013 really this comprises most of the town proper \u2013 that is, excluding the financial quarters which is the city. I\u2019ll start taking bus rides round tomorrow. Tell John Boyce I am living alongside the smell & fust of the bowler hatted & homberged legal fraternity. This hotel is in Norfolk St. just off the Strand & practically opposite Australia House & near the Royal Courts of Justice (which look imposing & very, very established). And tell them too (I mean Mrs Boyce as well) that I had the good fortune to see the Lord Mayor\u2019s procession this morning. It would be practically identical with the procession that took place when Sir Leslie Boyce was elected or appointed Lord Mayor of London. I got quite a kick out of it & entered sympathetically into the English love of pageantry.<\/p>\n

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Lord Mayor’s Show from opposite T. Marks & Sons, 33 Fleet Street, London; 9 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What with the bands & mounted police, the sailors & airmen, and soldiers with great black bussils on. It was a drizzling day & the busbied boys wore long grey overcoats & looked extremely striking, without being musical comedy. You really caught the continuity of tradition with them. They were followed later by foot men in red with very anciently patterned costumes & with carried lances. Shiny breast plated guards in red, with white trousers and gloves, mounted on saddles draped with sheep skins. Beautiful horses & the guards in glistening metal helmets floating, with plumes & the crumby looking gilt Lord Mayor\u2019s coach drawn by six liveried horses, each mounted by a rider in equally unworthy dress. Fleet St, all in flags & full of people. All indeed, there is so much about London that typifies the British spirit. That solid annual performance. The spick & span city \u2013 paint going on the window frames \u2013 the old black bricks being cleaned back to their warm & cheerful originality. A bourgeois stolidity that has yet freedom \u2013 because each individual aspect of the geographical city is the home, or castle of those whose desire it is to invest it with their personal pride and dignity. London is greater and more interesting than I ever expected. The British have not the Gallic lightness but by God it is obvious they are freer in concepts than the Germans \u2013 and based securely and irrevocably in their land & in their homes. And the shops! Every flaming aspect of commercialism, intonate, aloof, specialised \u2013 cheap jack \u2013 bazaar \u2013 slick – the works! A wonderful sight \u2013 nothing quite like it. And above all the myriads of people, the sound of the cockney (or London, I don\u2019t know) voice \u2013 obligated by the accent of the avidly buying American tourists. It must be their paradise \u2013 because things are cheap. Not the best, lovely, but the next best are cheap. Still, plenty of new Rolls Royces, Bentleys, etc. around. Even the London cabs have really unbelievable English dignity. They are all black Austins, stuffy & box like \u2013 but immaculately polished \u2013 and all identically the same appearance, like a rather pass\u00e9 but well cared for great aunt of the family. The cabs & big fast, RED, double deckers, absolutely in in a never ending stream, go up & down the streets, which are nevertheless, quite easy to cross. And so, on and on, this description of London could go \u2013 and will. But at the moment all I can contemplate with enthusiasm is being with you in midst of a sportive spring night. I go to bed hoping I can dream about it \u2013 but I\u2019m too tired to dream at all. It is most frustrating. I\u2019m glad you miss my shoulder \u2013 next time you have it you can gnaw it to the bones for all I\u2019ll notice. You shouldn\u2019t have become so ardent during these years \u2013 I can hardly regard the nobility of that wonderfully laid out, and magnificently shopped Regent St, for thinking about the pleasures of a Northwood night.<\/p>\n

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Bedford Square looking down Bloomsbury Street, London; 9 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Near 82 Regent Street looking east towards Piccadilly Circus, London; 9 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

5:20pm Saturday night [10 Nov 1956]. Even my urge is wilting under the onslaughts of this overwhelming city. It\u2019s vast \u2013 huge \u2013 beyond any suburban conception. The impact is terrific \u2013 must be quite the moistest city in the world. Paris is beautiful \u2013 intimate even \u2013 but has none of the power London holds. Who\u2019d have thought, or think, even now, to look at them, that the English could create & sustain so vitally, such a tremendous edifice. This morning I took a bus out past the East End, way out to a place called Becontree Heath. Over an hour\u2019s run, through the slummy areas of Stepney Green \u2013 Bow Road \u2013 Stratford. Gradually opening a little through continuous rows of houses \u2013 through other shopping centres like Ilford and East Ham. The whole teaming with people. Districts, flat & dull, with empty bombed out blocks. All being slowly reconstructed under a housing scheme. Back again to wander round what is known as the City (the centre of Banking & Commerce & Finance). Huge stolid fortresses, like the Bank of England \u2013 granite like, impervious it seems to time or change. But alongside them, other great empty blasted spaces, being resurrected with huge modern offices in a different architectural style to those which remain. But the life is there, and the rather amazing emergence of the fogged will to power. It is hard to photograph these monolithic masses which so firmly hold to earth. The human seems secondary, whereas in Paris the buildings are lighter & are more for man. Then to walk along the Thames Embankment \u2013 the river busy with barges \u2013 the apparently inevitable mist \u2013 The still massive structures facing the river \u2013 and those blown away, being replaced by others equally large. And so on to Westminster, where the Houses of Parliament are being carefully reconstructed in original carving. Into Westminster \u2013 Downing St \u2013 Whitehall \u2013 Trafalgar Square \u2013 Many people placing tiny crosses with a red poppy & a deceased warrior\u2019s name, in the grounds of the Abbey. Hundreds upon hundreds of tiny crosses. Further up guards in vermillion & black capes formally hold guard before ancient archways. Christ it is impressive! How could the English be subdued?<\/p>\n

Later. Very nice to come in & find your bed turned down & your pyjamas laid out. Very nice, but is it worth it? If this is a cheap pub, the outlook is grim indeed. \u00a32 per night. 6\/6 for breakfast \u2013 15\/- dinner. I\u2019ve had 3 nights \u2013 3 breakfasts \u2013 1 dinner & am down over a tenner. I\u2019ll have to move. After finishing this letter I went up the road and had a feed at the dagoes. 5\/- touch. It was then still early so I caught a bus down to Chelsea & roamed around dropping into various bars to see what they were like. The English beer is terrible (the draught beer I mean) almost makes me vomit. So I have either a small bottle of Guinness Stout \u2013 or a small bottle of pale ale. They are not too bad. The pubs are quite unlike anything we know. \u2013 More like mid Victorian drawing rooms. Always dark \u2013 plenty shiny glass \u2013 brown woodwork \u2013 lamp shades \u2013 people standing around like at cocktail parties. Some quiet \u2013 some with a pianist – & cut glass mirrors & sandwiches & snacks. Started home about ten o\u2019clock & when I got outside my pub felt ravenous, so walked about a quarter of a mile to find a chocolate shop. Managed that, but was rebuffed. After a certain hour it is wicked to sell chocolate \u2013 was so aghast I nearly fell into the pub next door to the shop \u2013 to continue drinking (pubs are open till 11) \u2013 But was too hungry and went back to the shop & settled for a dreadful\u00a0 1\/4dth of beef sandwich. Which I finished in the lift coming up to my room. I was all set to tell you about the church up the road. St Clements Dane [Saint Clement Danes] or something \u2013 but I am wilting too rapidly.<\/p>\n

So goodnight for sure, with this letter.<\/p>\n

I still love you most immoderately and would like to sleep with my head snuggled into the armpit side of your right breast \u2013 just where I belong and am extremely comfortable, when not too excited to appreciate it. God bless you honey \u2013 I hope you got a little thing in a letter from me from Paris.<\/p>\n

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Dorothy’s much cherished cat broach which Bill sent her from Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was in such a hurry & so confused because they wouldn\u2019t accept it at letter rate \u2013 unless it was in a letter \u2013 I forgot to register it. I hope it arrived safely \u2013 because I didn\u2019t want you to think that I would forget our second anniversary. I am unhappy that I cannot be with you. But we will have some Minchinbury for dinner the night I get home \u2013 I am really very happy and very lucky to have married a sweety adorable little bugger like yourself.<\/p>\n

I love you still.\u00a0 Bill XXX<\/p>\n

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Looking towards the Royal Exchange from Queen Victoria Street near Poultry, Bank, London; 10 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Bank of England viewed from Cornhill, Bank, London; 10 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St Paul’s Cathedral from Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street at Mansion House, London; 10 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St Nicholas Cole Abbey, bomb damaged, viewed from Old Change Hill now part of Queen Victoria Street, London; 10 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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College of Arms, 130 Queen Victoria Street, London; 10 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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