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Thu 15-Nov-56: 2nd wedding anniversary, received cake from Dorothy. Had a look at Lincoln’s Inn<\/a>. Tried on a suit & walked around shops in afternoon. Went dinner with Rex Reinits Chelsea<\/i><\/h6>\n
Fri 16-Nov-56:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Went shopping, failed to get coat for Dorothy. Went to Museum in afternoon for hour.<\/i><\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/p>\n

Debenham Court [Possibly now the Radisson Blue Edwardian Sussex Hotel<\/a>]<\/h6>\n
Granville St [Granville Place]<\/h6>\n
London<\/h6>\n
15 Nov 56<\/h6>\n

Dear sweet two-year-old wife,<\/p>\n

Am sorry to report a fairly unrewarding day in so far as finding a suit for myself is concerned. I\u2019ve been to Simpsons, whose stock is shockingly meager in 2 piece suits (mostly 3 piece) and that applies to all the shops-but I\u2019m hanged if I\u2019m going to buy a waistcoat two. Most of the suits a single breasters-and pretty well all the fabrics in different-or to light-or too loud. I only tried one suit on at Simpsons<\/a>. A nice dark, but a bit loud on the stripe. Also the collar was cut down to low. God knows my neck\u2019s long enough without isolating it. Austin Reed<\/a>s had nothing I could see. Aquascutum<\/a>\u2019s apparently had the stuff but nothing under 27 to 33 gns which is on 33 to 40 gns. I reckon I could get a first-class job made<\/span> for that in Sydney-and not be buying just because I have only a little time left. I find it difficult to make any decision. Go back to Simpsons early next week. I have had dinner out with the Rex Reinits and thoroughly enjoyed it. They have a flat in Chelsea and they have been married (I take it) only a little over 12 months. Although both of them have lived over here in different spots for quite some years. She [Thea] is Australian too. I think he must have married her last time he was back home, also I gather this is about his third effort. Anyway they made me happy about my 2nd anniversary and wished me the best. We played all the Romanian records and there are some really fine pieces amongst the collection. One we gave full marks to was a \u201cdoina\u201d sung by a woman on the fact that when her love is far away she has to find comfort in other things (not men) she has to sublimate her love. At least that is the theory, or the text, of the song-so Stefania told me. It was a very beautiful and haunting melody. Lovely, and I didn\u2019t mind the last they made when I said the love had to find comfort in other things. I will regard it as our<\/i><\/b> anniversary piece. It was the first time I had heard the records at all. The fast violin pieces so recall to me that different little groups of players I had heard and the Romanian orchestra I had told you of. It was a fine clear night so I walked home a quite considerable distance, through Chelsea, and up by Hyde Park, along the ritzy hotel area. Past the Hyde Park Hotel, the Dorchester<\/a>, etc. Park Lane as the street is called is I am told the great stamping ground for the girls who work at night. Even when I came after 1 o\u2019clock there were quite a few about. But I guess I look to married and purposefully going somewhere, which I was. Surprisingly,-you\u2019d never pick some of them to be what they are-not at least in the street lights. Some very young and quickly it\u2019s quite attractive. God knows how many times they had been to the cost and up again, by the time I saw them. Chatting away together, comparing shoes and what not. Just like dames waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m off to bed now, this little break with you has soothed me off into an approximate sleep. So I may as well take advantage of my stricken mood to rest myself in recuperative slumber. Good night-my dearest wife-and thank you again for the cable and the thought of getting me a dressing gown. I really couldn\u2019t carry it back I\u2019m as heavy as hell as it is.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. Friday [16 November 1956]. Am back in my room after a frustrating day. Fortunately there is a radiator here-and by magic shilling in the electricity meter slot makes it work. So at least I can be warm. I saw a Rodex coat I liked for you yesterday and went back early this morning to buy it. Unfortunately it was the wrong size, and, as it is just about the end of the selling season (everybody wears a coat now) I couldn\u2019t get one to fit. All sorts of other patterns and colours but the bloody one I wanted. Spent all morning walking all over London trying to get one without success. The flaming goons makes so many slightly different styles for the individual shop buyer\u2019s tastes that no two shops seem to carry the same thing. I had them ring Rodex but they couldn\u2019t help. It has now become a dammed fixation with me. I\u2019ll have to get them to make one now and post it out. I\u2019m very disappointed I couldn\u2019t bring it back as a surprise-but there it is. I had to mention it-so don\u2019t go buying yourself one in the meantime. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll like it. It is quite plain and won\u2019t date anyway. Heavens knows you\u2019ll need it to the winter. I like going around looking for things for you-but I\u2019m afraid I have to give it up now. Bought myself a pair of grey corduroy slacks at Selfridges-very good and only 49\/6. Selfridges here is like David Jones or Myers.<\/p>\n

Had pork chops and chips for tea. Went down to the museum again for a while this afternoon and sort of reassessed my verdict on Indian sculpture. It is better than I first thought-must have been very tired when I went before. In any case I\u2019ve had walking around and wished to hell I was home with you both. Not looking forward to this extra week and a half, one tiny bit. I need some coupling, bad. I think I\u2019ll go to bed and read-lots and lots of love and kisses for you my darling. Your Willie loves you very much. XXXXXXX SAOH.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning 8:30 a.m. [17 Nov 1956]. Dear sweet beautiful lady, and wife, and mistress. Your lover is strong and gay after a good rest and an early arising. Breakfast of bacon and egg and grapefruit juice, which is brought up to my room (everyone\u2019s room) has been satisfactorily stowed away. The day is getting lighter-albeit the fainthearted English effort of brightness-and nothing yet has happened to throw me into the very pits of despair. I\u2019m in a great bum-slapping mood-and I would have you know it. Today I shall relax for the pleasures seeing. Am going to the Portobello<\/a> market with the Reinits this morning for an hour to observe the costers at work. Later I shall either look at the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> or take a bus ride out to Hampstead Heath which everybody has heard of and which I like to see what\u2019s like. There\u2019s a professor character-Jock Marshall<\/a> lives out that way too. I may try and renew an old acquaintance. I\u2019m very loving and cheerful. Have been thinking this trip to Z\u00fcrich over and have decided to go by train-hoping to see something thereby Holland, Germany and Switzerland. It will cost me only \u00a35 more than if I catch the plane here. I think I told you for \u00a34 I can<\/b> get on at London. It would cost me another \u00a32 to stay here for accommodation so that \u00a36 from \u00a311 the other way (with a night at pub in Z\u00fcrich) would cost = \u00a35 which I am sure is a cheap tourist trip through three countries.<\/p>\n

I give you the big kiss-I am upmost lark like in my mood. Funny odds and ends one sees here in London. Blokes having a cheese roll with a cheese all smothered in mustard washed down with their awful black flat draught beer. Another character, having \u00bd beer \u00bd cider in his glass-ugh! Pubs at lunchtime are more like cafes-tablecloths, hot meals, men and women, a glass or two each and a gossip for the lunch hour. Fires in the lounges and plenty of Cockney and bally high class accent coming from all quarters of the compass.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going out now to get a few things done early so will get this off. Please forgive the dreadful dreary nurse of the early part of this letter. I couldn\u2019t bring myself to rewrite it. A fine, firm, squeeze for you-and my love to the old super mechanic Graham and his working hound Nortey Trellie. If he could teach her to talk she could do the messages while he sat around on his great fat ass. Poor Tommy [O’Dea]-that radio must have him horrified. Why don\u2019t you send grain with it up in the bus to Ferries at Lane Cove. Opposite the post office. Another, even firmer hug for you, in private.<\/p>\n

Love, love, love, from your own particular man<\/p>\n

Bill<\/p>\n

\"1956 \"1956<\/p>\n

<\/a>
Looking up Shaftesbury Avenue from Regent Street at Piccadilly Circus, London; 15 November 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I saw a Rodex coat I liked for you yesterday and went back early this morning to buy it. Unfortunately it was the wrong size, and, as it is just about the end of the selling season (everybody wears a coat now) I couldn\u2019t get one to fit. All sorts of other patterns and colours but the bloody one I wanted. Spent all morning walking all over London trying to get one without success. The flaming goons makes so many slightly different styles for the individual shop buyer\u2019s tastes that no two shops seem to carry the same thing. I had them ring Rodex but they couldn\u2019t help. It has now become a dammed fixation with me. I\u2019ll have to get them to make one now and post it out. 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