dear uncle wilhelm as you promised we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to your cousin in lincoln and
found it most informative stop the beautiful cathedral almost justified our visit on its own and our
hosts shared with us some interesting drawings of the towers you mentioned stop they graciously
allowed me to copy the sketches and explained much about how the towers are built and why stop as
usual i will send you my notes and sketches via our dear friend jessica who has promised to ensure
their safe delivery stop really i must congratulate our hosts in the local scout groups for the
marvellous way in which they have organised our travel though some of the scouts have been rather
more solicitous than we had expected asking rather a lot of questions about our plans stop generally
i hope they were satisfied with the answers that we gave but we feel that we are at risk of
overstaying our welcome so we will return to london on tuesday stop even though we have enjoyed our
time together there has been some debate among the group about where we should visit next stop there
are so many interesting sites to visit along the majestic thames estuary so we have decided to split
into two groups stop ralf will lead one party on a tour of the kent coast while i am very much
looking forward to exploring the essex marshes stop do let me know if you have a better idea but i
have been told that canewdons fifteenth century church affords an elevation with a wide view of
the surrounding lands in this otherwise rather flat landscape and is the site of another fascinating
tower which i will be certain to sketch for you stop finally if you have any further requests for
specific information then perhaps you could leave a message for me at the post office there stop karl
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