23rd July, 1951

This letter is written on The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Penang office' airmail paper .

Dear Mum, Dad and Alan,

Many thanks for your letter of the 17th you sound as if you are enjoying yourselves and I hope that the rest of the fortnigh has been the same.

Ipoh is not such a large office - it is a sub agency to us - that is why I look after its cash. We have a government treasury in Penang and I draw from that and issue to three sub-agencies and ourselves. That is Ipoh, Sungei Patani and Teluk Anson.

Henry's tenant sounds most useful and guess Richard & Kenneth are very happy to have someone like that to show them one or two things.

A Singapore sub manager was up her for the last week - Morrison - for a holiday on the hill. Most pleasant - met him yesterday for a drink at the St Giles! He is rumoured to be the next Singapore manager.

Was fiddling with some indoor photography the other evening and Peter took the enclosed. The odd lighting has made one look very sunburned and am rather intrigued with the result as a whole - notice the thumb nail detail in normal light and then the hair which has caught a gleam of top lighting. The light metre was perfectly accurate for this. The true picture would only be produced with and additional eye-level floodlight which would tone down the facial features and generally lighten the subject.

Work has died down to nothing and I can hardly believe that we were at all rushed. It is pleasant to relax for awhile though shall not be pleased to stay that way for long.

The rain has stopped again thank goodness - it was getting dull and chilly! The sun is back and am enjoying the glorious warm of it.

Two strokes sounds pretty terrific - you'll be swimming the Channel next year! Tally Ho!

Cheerio for now and love,

Peter