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Title	Letter from Mary Churchill Humphrey
Description	She is glad to have been able to put Edith in touch with Mrs. Francis Hackett. Franciss Hackett is hard at work on his biography of Charles V. She was able to put him in touch with a decendant of Charles V - Viceroy to Peru. Talks of books - Isak Dinesen (Baroness Von Blixen), Beryl Markham and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She talks of her work with the charity "Men of Science, Prisoner of War". They send study books to P.O.W.'s in Europe. Compares linguistic facilities in British and U.S. universities. Baron de Staël von Holstein toldher (in Peking) that he had hoped to study Sanskrit and Hindustan at Oxford but found they were not offered. He had to go to the university of Bombay instead.
Date	16 Jul 1942

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