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Re:Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middl... by Stratoscope on Monday September 07, 2015 @03:47PM (#10182747)
These are wonderful! Your dad was quite the ladies' man too. I love the depiction of the Bengali princess: "...I doubt if she realizes that there are a group of people on earth who actually work and it is this which makes the world go around. She floats endlessly in her world of art, poetry, and creativity... It will be a considerable relief when this girl has returned to London and I can become rested again..."

Would he mind a suggestion on the title? If this book is as good as the letters you shared, people will be reading it 10, 20, 30 years from now. So "50 Years Ago" is a bit of a moving target. Not sure if it would be an improvement to just mention the actual decades in the subtitle, or a reference to the events of the time, or maybe just leave out the "50 Years Ago" entirely since as you noted this is really timeless. Just food for thought.

Please put up that email subscription form! :-)

p.s. Any chance of an ebook or Kindle edition?

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Re:Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middl... by will_brown on Monday September 07, 2015 @05:59PM (#10183252)
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Re:Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middl... by staz on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:59PM (#10183406)
http://billbrowndearmom.weebly.com

Clickable link. Looking forward to reading the rest !

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Re:Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middl... by rosege on Monday September 07, 2015 @09:02PM (#10183735)
These look great - I would have loved to do what he did. I've done quite a lot of travel and lived overseas but there is something very interesting about doing it in a diplomatic function watching the local history happen.

On the link you posted I just read the first article - and its dated Jan 5 1960. Are you sure its not 1961 - in the letter he says 1961 is on its way.

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