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Dora tells BR, "It is best to write to TH as I am moving about driving the car for a couple of weeks' change. Hope the children are well and you are not bothered by the events in Ireland."

"It is perhaps difficult for you to realise that it is your standards and view of life that are changing so rapidly, whereas mine remain what they were when we brought up the children together. I hear much more from them about titles and clothes and polishing finger nails and so on when they come back to me, and naturally I do not like it, especially for Kate. I remain an unrepentant revolutionary and I do not like bourgeois values and elegances, for I think they stand in the way, especially at this time in history."

"... I must keep clear of snobbery for myself...."

Typed copy is document .101011cx, record 115833.