Your mother and I have a beautiful house here that has been lent to us, right on the Channel where there's nothing worth bombing and where as much sunshine and warmth come as come anywhere in England.

We got here last night and to-day is as fine an early spring day as you ever had in the Sandhills.

I shall golf and try to find me an old horse to ride, and I'll stay out in the sunshine and try to get the inside machinery going all right.

We may have a few interruptions, but I hope not many, if the Germans leave us alone.

Your mother has got to go to Newcastle to christen a new British warship--a compliment the Admiralty pays her "to bind the two nations closer together" etc.etc.And I've got to go to Cambridge to receive an LL.D.for the President.