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Did nothing in the morning & in the afternoon James & Edward had their show on the lawn, it was a great
success & everyone seemed to enjoy it. A lot of dogs, hawks, cats & birds in boxes & on leads, Stoker & -
Bill TT judged, there were about 40 English people & nearly as many Arabs, a lot of children both English &
Arab including HH's little sons all very smart in gold with black henchmen in attendance. They made
quite a lot of money for war funds. All adjourned to the house for a cocktail party & the TTs stayed on for
dinner. Mrs Leigh, a Levantine, created much talk, some couldnt make out what she was but to those who
know the East she is obvious. r

The garden looked nice, lots of huge double nasturtians in bloom round the fountains & quite a lot of other
flowers as well. The boys really did a very good show & entirely unaided, the whole thing passed off -
excellently & all said if more publicity had been given there would have been masses of entries.

Saturday 24th February

Fort. HH & Sh A came as usual, talked of Turkey's declaration of war which they thought showed that the
war was nearly over, discussed Abdulla Said & the drink question, James' show, HH gave RslOO/- towards it