BR TO MANSEL DAVIES, 28 AUG. 1965
BRACERS 135580. TLS. McMaster
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Plas Penrhyn,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Merioneth.
28 August, 1965.

Dear Professor Davies,

Once again I am turning to you. This time in the hope that you may help us to find a secretary who must have certain qualifications. We should wish him or her to live in the neighbourhood, not in our house, and to come to us daily from ten to five. He or she must be a competent shorthand-typist and in broad general agreement with our political point of view. We should like to have somebody who would be not merely a shorthand typist, but would be capable on occasion of representing us in interviews and letters and telephone calls. A good deal of the work will consist of filing and occasionally in collecting facts for articles that I may have to write. For such a paragon, we are willing to pay a fairly good salary. But we do not know where in this countryside to apply for such a person. The only places we can think of to which to apply are the universities, and their authorities, we gather, are not very sympathetic to our political views, so, at the risk of troubling you once too often, we are writing to ask if you know of anyone or can suggest to whom we should apply. I hope that you will not find us too much of a pest.

Yours sincerely,
Russell