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10. number. This sort of thing is sickening, though I suppose one should not complain now that letters are coming along fairly well & regularly. But quite apart from not having one of your valued letters, there may easily have been something quite important which you wanted me to know, or to which you expect a reply. I hope my missing ones turn up - it couldn't possibly be a mistake in my numbering, because I put each one down on my paper - date, number & no of pages. No 19 was posted on 16 Feb from Jericho - 8 pages - & was sea mail. No 21 was my first L.C. No 22 was 8 pages & may have been sea mail. No. 40 was 10 pages & was definitely air mail. I will certainly buy you some slippers my darling - I will try & get into Tel Aviv this week & post them off at once & hope that they will arrive in time for Xmas. I wish I could too. Oh dear. The news is quite good these days. I am tensely watching events. Darling sweetheart, this letter of yours I have just received was a very unhappy one, in spite of you being so pleased about Max. In fact you finished your letter by saying that it seemed to you to be one long grouse & you had told yourself about 16 times that you supposed you must "stick it". Sweetheart, don't call me unsympathetic because you know I'm far from it & don't say that now you will have to be careful of even what you write to me - because you know that would be