| Description | 'After writing to you this morning I went myself to the Russian Consulate to make enquiries, and it is as well I did so, because they told me there that Prof Schuster's passport is now out of date, under a recent rule which limits the validity of all passports to five years (the one you sent me being dated 1907). It will therefore be necessary for him to obtain a new one; but the Consulate people assured me that there would be plenty of time for him to do that next week and that I or anyone could get it vise for him in a few minutes. So I do not propose to do anything further in the matter until he returns, unless there is anything I can do to save you or him trouble, in which event I should be gladly at your service.' |