Letter from Richard Dawkins, Oxford, to Thomas Balston, 1947 March 3 : Typescript signed.

Remarking that "Shuckburgh will have told you that I met him in the train as I was returning here from London and he on the way to your place" and that he had not seen him since they were undergraduates; informing Balston that "Dan here seems very well; I found a note from him in my room the other day which had as a postscript a picture of himself with a 'type' potato nose and the ominous words 'slight missbehaviour last night' but discrte [sic] enquiries reveal that nothing much really happened"; mentioning that Hartley Shawcross "seems to have been severely ragged here at the Union", complaining that he ignored his calls to order, and observing that the Union resents "distinguished strangers ... trying to ride roughshod over usages of debate; the Union may not be very high, but it still has a higher standard than the House of Commons."; declaring that everyone "is in despair at losing Mavrogordato this summer."