Photocopy. TL. Hetta [Empson], at 11 Tung Kao Fang, Peking, to William [Empson]:-

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Her fury at William not writing; panic in America about the possibility of shipping services to China being stopped; his re-entry permit being forwarded to Butterfield and Swire; Dudley Cleland; the start of the University term; him not being able to travel overland; a Danish shipping line called Jardine; Irene [Vincent]; a swimming gala at the Club; family news; the devaluation of the pound; Walter [Brown]; the invention of a story by the remaining Americans [in Peking] that Kim Ir Sen was dead and that a Russian fake had replaced him; the collapse of the roof at No. 3; David [Kidd] and Amy [Kidd] staying with Hetta; John Blofeld; and the possible complications with William returning to Tientsin

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