From Mandalay, to Emily Rattenbury at 2 Brayton Gardens, Enfield West, London. As they will be on the train all day tomorrow, he had better write his 'Sunday letter' today. They have been in Mandalay until this morning and details appear in the diary. In two or three hours they will board the train for Rangoon. He was foolish enough this week to have eaten a bowl of oily soup and this gave him an upset stomach from which he is now recovered. He was in any case able to fill all his appointments without difficulty.
There has been a pastoral synod this week, with one or two ladies added. There has been plenty of problems which he does not see how they could have been solved without face-to-face communication. He thinks that missionaries and Burmese alike are now enlightened and are probably much less fearful than would have been the case a month ago. If China goes as well, it will be very good.
There has been plenty of hard travelling but everyone has been very helpful. There are advantages to being British even in these post-war days. Everything is so fresh and interesting, even more so than his last visit [1940]. He is of the opinion that the war 'has levelled out the human race a good deal & gives us all at least the approach to friendliness'.
He is wondering if there are letters from Emily in Rangoon or Calcutta and if so, he will have to wait until Kunming to get them. He expects communications will be irregular which is an argument in favour of the diary. If they return to Calcutta by sea, he will have the chance to report on Burma and get paperwork up to date in time for China.
He has written to Morley in his new circuit.