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Yes, it was Xilios, but too late (so far as you were concerned), he asked me not to repeat it. On New Years Eve he went down with an emergency appendectomy but is recovering nicely now, though still pretty sorry for himself. Then Christo took bad with Pneumonia and he is now recovering. Many thanks indeed for the "Bird-Calls"; they are fascinating and have helped amuse Xilios quite a bit but our Jackdaw "Jet" is jealous - not being much of a contralto herself. She is being wooed by various handsome suitors and, as these types mate for life, the business is important. I am very glad to have ended stage I of my Water-Supply job but I fear that the trouble for others is only just beginning (and that that may be in vain for who will want to read the stuff?) As the poet saith: "Full many an egg is laid to rot unseen" Profound Salaams,
Handwritten: Joe
PS Hugh Last: not that I know of. Hugh Mulholland (onetime higher maths man at your Beirut place) is a first cousin. Hugh anyway.
Handwritten: PS Any names of Christmas place?
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Printed: BY AIR MAIL / AIR LETTER / IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL.
Stamp: CYPRUS 4½ PIASTRES
Stamp: LIMASSOL 15 OCT 1954 CYPRUS
Miss Ellen Kohler, 519 South 42 St., Philadelphia 4, Penna., U. S. A.
Sender's name and address:- J. S. LAST EPISKOPI LIMASSOL CYPRUS
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain