Meynell informs BR that he, in the presence of his clerk, flipped a coin to decide who should get the children for the first part of the holidays and BR "won".

"Dora says she will not agree to consider the Williams-Ellis's invitation as covering neutral time. I have not discussed this with Lloyd but if the principle which I set out in my letter to you and to Dora has your acquiescence, as it has hers, this objection must, I think, carry."

BR has noted dates at the top of the letter.