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Friday 23rd February

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.

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 Rs100/- towards it