BR considers the bombing of a dam in North Vietnam as a "barbarous act". BR asks Wilson if he could receive a delegation of "approximately ten people" in the Isles of Scilly who "... wish to express their dismay about this latest American action."

At the foot of the letter in parenthesis: "Dictated on the telephone by Lord Russell and signed in his absence by his secretary".

Also present is a typed copy of the letter, on a Plas Penrhyn typewriter.