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Unfortunately Aitken's equipment is excessively abundant and bulky, and in addition to his room, from the 1st day occupied the common room and part of the terrace.
To limit the invasion, I therefore agreed with Aitken who that he would take the common room, at once as bedroom and as workplace. the small room then going to Contensson. The solution of a room in the village is unusable because the man would have to go there given his bulk, namely Aitken, cannot move his equipment.
The last aspect of this question is the noise caused by the generator. This machine runs every day from 18 h to 23 h approximately to recharge the battery. We have reduced the noise by burying it in a hole behind the house, which Aitken reaches directly through his back door. For the moment, this noise is not troublesome because Aitken myself and Contensson, when he is there, have to work at least every day until the stopping of the machine. So no hindrance to sleep. On the other hand, when you and Madame Schaeffer are here, I think it will be impossible for you to find the concentration needed to work, rest or even sleep. Our work being, if I may say so, more manual than cerebral, nevertheless bear this droning with difficulty incessant, which takes up the whole evening. Now the battery needs recharging every day and you will understand the problem which arises for you and for me at your arrival. Please excuse, I beg you, the liberty I am taking of raising with you this small problem, but I think that this letter will give you more time to consider the question than if I had waited for your arrival. I had finally thought of going each evening to the depot-village to start and then stop this recharging, but already when the generator runs at the mission, Michaël can often hear it from his home in the calm of the night, and troubles might perhaps be feared with the villagers.
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