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Holdstock & his wife & Gornall came to call, she seemed very colourless. He is a very self satisfied youth.
Galloway came in just as they were leaving & was as heavy as bad, awful, his appearance & manners are
equally unpreposessing, so very different to some who have been here.

Sunday 10th February

Spent most of the morning seeing people, Ali bin Hussein, just back from Bombay, Ali Bin Khalifah to talk
about his son who is at school at Baghdad, Ibrahim bn Mohd, who is getting very deaf, suggesting that I
should appoint him "public relations" officer to deal with strikes & labour who dont want dealing with. He is
a hard working youth but too talkative.

Dick came in to dinner and played the piano afterwards, he has some new music, some of it very agreeable,
stayed late talking till after 12.30.

Rode in the afternoon in a liesurely manner over to Idari & across to the Budeya road, very pleasant in the
country but got a bit sore & stiff from riding after so long off a horse.