Gollancz is "very sorry indeed to hear of Lady Russell's illness." If Kendall or Gardiner is unavailable "I shall have to deal with Germany." Lady Russell has told him about the ten minutes, and that is acceptable. Gollancz thinks it is a mistake to sell the Is It Nothing to You? photographs "of children deported from their homes in the East" because "things have improved in that direction now." Unless he hears differently he will assume that dinner with the Russells on Saturday night is "washed out".