34、January 20,1952

                      37 Oakfield Court
                      Hashlemere Road
                      Crouch End
                      London, N. 8

                      20-1-52

Dear Miss Hanff:
    For a long time I have wanted to write
to you to thank you for my family’s share
in the wonderful food parcels you’ve been
sending to  Marks & Co.  Now  I  have  an
excuse as Frank tells me you want to know
the name and  address of the old lady who
embroidered your cloth. It was beautiful,
wasn’t it?
    Her name is Mrs. Boulton and she lives
next door at No. 36 Oakfield Court.   She
was  thrilled  to know that her cloth had
crossed the Atlantic and I know she would
be delighted to hear how much you admired
it.
    Thank you  for wanting to send us more
dried egg, but we still have a bit left to
see us through until spring.   Some   time
between  April  and  September  we usually
manage all right for eggs,  as they go off
ration for a time and then we do  a bit of
trading  with  the  tins,  as  once  for a
special  occasion  I traded a tin of dried
egg for a pair of nylons,  Not  quit legal
but it does help us to get by!
    I will send you snap of my happy family
one of these days. Our oldest girl was
twelve last August, by name Sheila, who by
the way is my ready-made daughter, as
Frank lost his first wife during the war.
Our youngest, Mary, was four last week.
Last May, sheila announced at school that
she was sending Mummy and Daddy an
anniversary card and told the nuns (It’s a
convent) that we had been married four
years. It took a bit of explaining as you
can imagine.
    I will close this with all good wishes
for the New Year and especially a wish that
we may see you in England one of these
days.

                            Sincerely,
                            Nora Doel

注释：
Nora，Frank 的老婆