182 Broomwood Road

London SW.11

25^th Feb 1956

Dear Mamma and Daddy,

I am sorry to worry you so. I rang originally to counter the misinformation in my first letter which I feared would worry you. Then I had to say a great deal on the phone but I though you would be home the next day.

Things are becoming quite settled. I and Julia shall marry Saturday March 3^rd at 12:30 in Cambridge Registry Office, which has been allowed by the Master of Peterhouse and the Mistress of Girton. We shall have a few friends in at 2:30 at John Kendrew's house to have a glass of champagne. We shall live for a while in a newly furnished ugly Victorian suburban house in Clapham at the above address. It ought to be quite pleasant. I shall work at the Royal Institution until at least June finishing. I think it will be impossible to get a degree here, though this is not final. Bernal is on to it but I have not heard anything.

Julia is a rather smart girl with beautiful delicate features. She is rather intelligent and the dolls at Girton seem to consider her not continuing her education to be the tragedy of the decade.

Thank you for the wedding present. I feel I must resign the NSF though they will not like it anymore than I do. So we shall have to live on the wedding present for a while. This will work though.

You had better write my father-in-laws. He seems to put granting his permission for Julia to marry as a condition hearing from you, though I do not know what he expects you to say. The less the better. (He has signed the form actually but says only conditionally till hearing from you.)

Dear parents, I hope you are not too upset.

Much love,

XXXXOOOO

Peter