London
30.5.53.

My love, I received today your registered letter in which you sent me Dr R. letter and the copy of Dr Elliott’s letter to him, together with pictures of Moshe, but there was no accompanying note from you. Since I have had no word from you for some time and since the information in R. letter is not very encouraging, or rather very confusing, I imagined you were in quite a state. What can I say to you or how can I say it so that you will feel better and be able to take it all in your stride. I could not read the name of the Jerusalem doctor from R. letter, but he seems to have thought that Moshe’s condition is inherent from birth, but then Rahamimoff (sic) seems to disagree with that and thinks that there should be some sort of examinations in order to find out exactly what is wrong.

I have just written R. a letter and have asked him to advise me what we are to do. As to whether Moshe should go on in the Gan or not I tend to agree with you that he should, but then how am I to know. R. I think seems to tend to agree with you too. What sort of person was that doctor from Jerusalem and what was your opinion of him? Please do write to me soon for the last letter I had from you was written ten days ago and I am just about as nervous as can be about how things are going on at home.

You see, Bossy, I think that I can bring you all here in a very short time should that be necessary. There is no great difficulty in doing that since I know that you are a good old brick and the first few months of discomfort etc. will not mean nearly as much to you as the fact that something will be done about the boy. And I know that you will be much happier here and I shall be able to do much better if I have you all here next to me. So, please, my love, do let me know what you wish to do so that I can be guided in the matter. I can always get a furnished house, and if necessary buy it from somebody who is emigrating from England. There are such things and at this very moment there is such a possibility, but I did not know whether this is the right thing to do now. You must make up your mind and if you decide to come with the children soon, then I can get a part-time job with the B.B.C. and make sure of the first necessities that way and at the same time be able to go on with my work here for the family business. I do not know how long I can stand the strain of being away from home – I find out that I am a strictly family man and no nonsense about it.

I therefore await your letter and what you think is for the best. How is Liki and Rutie? And how are you? I can just about see you running in circles and finding it as hard as hell to keep above water and keeping the family going. I sometimes think that I must have been mad to leave you in such a state and come to England. You know, Bossy, that for just the bare necessities it is never very difficult to find the means here and then I am only too willing to work as hard as a ***** to make life as easy as I know how.

The new place where I have moved is far from good, but there is something that had made me do it. Mrs. Hermann has a daughter who is a lecturer in Scotland and she is assistant to the greatest brain specialist and surgeon in Scotland. She should be coming soon to see her mother and I am going to speak to her.

Apart from this, I have arranged to see Dr. Schlesinger of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Tuesday week and he is considered the greatest man alive, being chief physician there. I have the feeling that we could not do better than bring Moshe here, preferably with all of you, so that he can have a real chance to be examined and helped. They are pretty good here and I hope to be able to interest some of these people personally in Moshe’s case and so that they can take a real interest despite the fact that he will be treated under the National Health Scheme. And then apart from that here people are much more considerate and kind and they are not rough and brutal.

There is nothing much else to tell. People here have gone quite mad on this Coronation business and there is no chance of doing anything till after the Coronation. Some of the decorations are nice, but others are quite monstrous. The first thing I shall have to do for the B.B.C. is a sort of round up of Coronation preparations from other countries for next Monday night, the eve of the Coronation. Well, I have not had much chance of sitting down to it, but touch wood I trust to do it well so that I can have the courage to come again on other occasions, at least once a week. There is a good chance that I might get accepted as a part time on strictly fixed times and days so that I can pay my Health Contribution and Income Tax at once and so help get Moshe accepted at once. This is the idea I have and I hope and pray that it works. They have to look into my file now, but I hope there is nothing much against me there apart from the fact that I did not return in 47. Well that is explained but there is just the possibility that they will not accept the real facts of father’s illness. If that is the case there is little that I or anybody can do, for nearly all the people who knew of the facts have gone.

You will do me the greatest service if you were to write to me regularly and in detail, for I hang upon your news of the kids. Kiss them for me, Did they get their toys and you the dresses?

Yours, Der Boss