She has received BR's "little letter in the train" [not extant] on his way to the ship to take him to Scandinavia.

Times has come. "Italy has time to beat Abyssinia to a pulp before anything is done." She asks for Scandinavian opinion.

She will send a letter from Gerald Brenan (who kissed Rosalind von Ossietzky). She asks what to answer Imperial Chemicals. There are letters of acknowledgement from Curry and Meynell. BR has earned more this year "in spite of the Canaries and mathematical logic."