Letter from Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth to Andrew Alexander Pettigrew, 30th July 1928

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A.A. Pettigrew Esq.
Parks & Open Spaces Department
Roath Park
Cardiff

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15, Hyde Park gardens,
W2 [London]

July 30th, 1928

My Dear Pettigrew,

I am most strongly of opinion that it is absolutely essential for your brother to go abroad with you in the circumstances. Lady Plymouth had told me that he did not seem at all well when she was down at St Fagan's the other day & I had made up my mind to talk to him when I came down. I needn't conceal from you that I

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have been very worried about your brother's health for a long time & when you come back, I want to have a talk to you about it, for he really must do something about it before it is too late.

In the meantime I think it far the best thing that you should take him abroad for as long as possible to give him a complete rest & change, & he can rest assured not only that I have no objection, but that I insist on his going after what you have told me.

I have not had a letter from him this morning, but in a

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case such as this it is no good trying to hide from him that you have written to me, &, if, in receipt of my letter to-morrow you would like me to write direct to him (though I may not have heard from him), please send a telegram to that effect.

I am sure this is the right thing for him to do, & I only hope that this change will do him real good. If you like you can tell him anything that

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I have written to you in this letter.

Yours sincerely,

Plymouth.

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