... Thank you for your letter re Proust books and enquiring about day of capture, curiously enough American Independence Day! (Dates are not allowed in letters by the way.) Another 400 cigs. have arrived (making 800 in all), but please do not despatch any ...

... a few days at Monte Video to aitend a show of cattle which some of us had to judge. We arrived on or abou:r Uruquayan Independence Day, and witnessed a march past of about fifteen thousand soldiers, with an immens? number of bands, some of them playing ...