Written on HSBC airmail from Johore Bahru, Malaysia
Dear Mum and Dad,
Am just about to go to the airport to meet Margo. Luckily the baggage arrived last night and I have spent a happy afternoon unpacking the essentials - radiogram etc and better still they work! Things are making sense in the office now - it really is a good thing to come ahead and get the takeover done on one's own - it occupies every waking minute and I am not fit to live with whilst it is going on. Sutherland went off OK on 2nd since when I have been catching up on my sleep. We have two airconditioned bedrooms and one TV study. The house is vast but only 3 bed 1 TV lounge & DR. You could get our house inside it twice. The servants quarters garages and storerooms would take another. The grounds are immense full of flowering shrubs, orchids papaya coconuts very hilly - could fit in two holes of golf badminton and tennis court but no time just now. Have since had lunch with the Sultan and also another with his eldest son Tunku Mahmud. Mr Dabb's chap is the Sultan's brother and lives mainly in Singapore. I do not think he gets about much here. The Sultan came to Sutherland's farewell at the house & stayed over an hour instead of the official half hour. He also sent two crates B & W.
Love Peter
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