Letter

Letter

Unknown sender to Jack Newton. keeping in contact, mentions M.I.9 and other activities.

Four page handwritten letter

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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
MAMELUKE, AUDLEY, LONDON.
TELEPHONE GROSVENOR 1261 (5 LINES)
18/11/43
CAVALARY CLUB,
127 PICCADILLY, W.1.
My dear Newton
I’m so sorry I was out of town when you phoned & I do hope I shall have more luck next time.
Thanks also for your letter of 13th Jun. I am sorry to have no specially encouraging news to convey over the visit I made
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at the establishment you know. The recommendation for awards depend from that establishment M.i.9 [sic] in so far as they judge that great hardships have been undergone on [indecipherable word]. They say that in your case there were no real “hardships” & that you got away pretty easily!
If an award has to come from the Air Ministry it must be on the
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grounds of some special “flying” merits, or merits during the flight!
Isnt [sic] this all very far fetched. The fact you ‘prepare’ for the safe crash-landing should constitute a [inserted] sufficient [/inserted] special flying merit, I think.
Let me go on
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trying in another sphere, or at another level, to put it more clearly & in the end one [underlined] must [/underlined] succeed.
With very best wishes
Yours v. sincerely
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