28 April 1938
To Dad · Royal Air Force, Catterick, Yorks
CATTERICK,
YORKS.
TELEPHONE,
OLD CATTERICK 53.
Dear Dad:
Been to London twice in the last couple of weeks.
Flew down to Northolt for a weekend holiday before Easter and had to go down again on official business a couple of days ago.
Visited at the Admiralty and met Admiral Sir Edward Dowding and two others - very fine gentlemen. In Abingdon Street just under the shadow of Big Ben. Lovely in London now - bright and warm.
Many visitors there and visited Canada House and met many fellow Canadians.
Did a Battle Climb this morning to 30,000 feet but when we attacked enemy aircraft found our camera guns frozen solid and they could not be operated - so help me! - no pictures taken.
Climbed through thousands of feet of cloud but came home by wireless Direction Finding - really posh. Just phone up Headquarters and homing bearing bring you back to Aerodrome in any visibility.
Well by now you will be back on the road and working hard - by rights your car should fall to pieces this summer - ha! ha!
Enclosed find "Rhapsody in Blue" - a story slopping over in sentimental slush but true anyway. Written by a Flight Cadet from Britain's Air University "Cranwell College."
Well I have written enough for today - see you soon.
Love Bill