| Description | Written at the Physiology Institute, Newport Road, Cardiff
'My dear Mrs Schild
I cannot say how sorry I am to hear your news. I imagine he has been fetched not because the police have anything against him but because they do not know anything much about him - and things are happening so quickly at the moment that they have no time to investigate individual cases. But it must be terrible for you - feeling as French as I know you do. Luckily, I think even an Englishman could hardly mistake you for anything but French.
One consolation is that Schild will be safer and probably more comfortable than he would have been if he had joined the Pioneers. It seems likely that such primitive considerations as safety and food will seem much more important in the coming months than many of the things we lucky ones have thought important in the past.
I doubt very much, alas, whether I shall be in a position to do anything to help you or Schild - but if anything occurs to you, please ask. It is one of the minor advantages of war that people need not be so embarrassed about trying to help each other as they can -or should I say were - in peacetime.
Our daughter was born last Sunday - thank you for being so nice about it. Bessie is in a nursing home after her operation and she and the infant (Averil by name) are doing as well as can be expected in such depressing times. Like you - we shall have to fight to keep our baby will and happy.
Do let me know what is happening to Schild when you feel feel like it.
My best regards
Frank R Winton
I think I should not bother U.C. with Schild's affairs just now. I will keep your letter, and if there are any difficulties you can say you have written to me. I shall be going to Aberystwyth next week and will see if it is practicable to raise the matter verbally. They will, I imagine, go on paying till September or so anyway.' |