Thanks for your letter 438/192 of the 10th March, 1953,¹ received this morning.

I enclose the note for Brian.² He may suggest another form, if he likes. We can do a lot of drafting between now and April. The objection I have to his present draft is that the emphasis is on the ‘turning down’ of Dudley.³ He would, most certainly, come to hear of it, and then I should be included in the already long list of people he feels inclined to blast and damn.

My draft does nothing more than change the emphasis, but that little difference will leave me a sufficient margin of liberty to keep on ignoring the letters he writes me, without offending him too deeply.

I am so glad to hear that you have got to know Dudley!