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COOL RECEPTION

HIGHLAND BARD EATON LAO.

*COOL RECEPTION COLOPTIMIST

TRAPPIST BOY

*EATON LAO.

room for two in the Grand Central for two nights, and then we could all have a party on

it?! Apparently we have to go to a Ceremonial Dinner on the night of the 9th

evening dress with miniature decorations”. I suppose you no longer have a set of tails

which you could lend me? You will both like Bob Pocock very much. He is, by the way,

playing with the idea of doing a programme (provided the BBC High­ups agree to it) about

the Skins – which might give the opportunity for several joyous conferences at the

Corporation's expense. Love to Mercy and yourself. Yours ever, Louis. (Louis MacNeice)

P.S. Please tell Goldblatt that I shall be writing to him.