[4 page letter on Hotel St.Petersbourg stationery]

12th Dec 1924

Dear All,

I really did try hard yesterday to write to you and I will enclose the effort with this as further evidence. It was impossible for me to post the missive though as the fog made us late and so had to rush through Folkestone and Boulogne without getting a chance to get near a Post Office and finally arrived in this gay city of Paris at about 6 last night or in the words of Continental time 18 hundred as they take the full twenty four hours from midnight.