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Angel sweetest -

I nearly forgot to send you this hankie. I bought this, & a brown one which I will send with my next letter - in Tel-Aviv. I do hope you will like it. On that evening, I went in with Salamon, Headley - & Ben-Arzi - to be taken out to dinner by Burstein, of the Jewish Welfare. We had a lovely meal, & then went round a few bars & places. Burstein very kindly got us all a bit tiddled - but I was home in bed by midnight.

This Burstein is really a kind man. I was talking to him on that evening about books you had sent me & which had never arrived. Today, came a parcel from him containing - "The Knapsack" edited by Herbert Read - The Penguin New Writing edited by John Lehmann - "What is Art" by D.S. Mac coll - "russia" by Bernard [Parus?] - "Death at Swaythling Court", a thriller by J.J. Cannington - & Ian Hay's "The 1st 100,000." and it is even kinder on account of the fact that they are mostly from his own shelves, & can no longer be obtained here. I cannot help looking at them as something to read on the way home - soon. I must eliminate this wishful thinking.

This has been a frightful ten days. The Jewish New