BR TO KATHARINE TAIT, 1 DEC. 1945
BRACERS 52529. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Rd.
Cambridge
1.12.45

Dear Kate

Thank you very much for your letters, including those to Conrad, and for 2 Xmas cards which arrived this morning. I don’t know of any way by which we can send you anything for Xmas beyond Xmas cards, but you have our warmest Xmas wishes.

I am very glad everything has started off well with you, and I think you will certainly be happier in U.S. than you would be in this country. I miss you very much — I should in any case, but the loss of John makes me feel your absence even more than I otherwise should.

We are even busier than usual. I made a speech in the Lords about the atomic bomb,1 which was a great success; and Peter is overwhelmed with work about starving Germans. The state of the world is unbearably painful, but I imagine that in America it is easier to forget about it than it is here.

I think, dear Kate, that you are now launched, and that your life ought to be happier in the future than it has been in the past — always supposing you marry some one who is satisfactory. You will know that I like very much hearing your news.

Very much love from all three of us.

Your aff
Diddy

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  speech in the Lords about the atomic bomb On 28 Nov.; see Parliamentary Debates (Lords) for this date (B&R C45.26); 66 in Collected Papers 24.