Greetings from London! We began our stay in London with a "flight" on the London Eye. What a great addition to the city's attractions! You really can see so much and they have it all wonderfully organized. We're quite close to the Thames so doing quite a bit of walking around there. Close to the Tate so took in a special exhibition on the garden...very nicely done.

I went with Jim yesterday to Old Battersea House to help with some copying of Huxley letters to John Galsworthy (of Forsyth Saga fame among many other things). There ended up not to be any letters but it was quite an experience. It actually was the London home of Steve Forbes of Forbes Magazine. He has an amazing collection of Galsworthy papers...many original manuscripts and loads of letters from Conrad to Galsworthy..also letters from Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, etc.(alas no Huxley).

It was quite an amazing house and our work area was beside a large wonderful David Hockney work. The secretary there was having trouble typing up a talk from the handwriting of someone so Jim helped her since he is quite accustomed to reading bad handwriting.
In the end, the person came down to decipher it and it happened to be Casper Weinberger who was the Defence Minister for Reagan. Various photos around the house with famous people like John Kennedy, Clinton, Reagan, Liz Taylor (the father, Malcolm Forbes, was married to her for a while).

National Gallery yesterday and wonderful to see Van Gogh's Sunflowers again.

Off to Dorset tomorrow after dinner with the Horne family tonight.