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This page links to the only letter in my files from 1985, and one of only two surviving letters from Aunt Muriel.
I was living in a flat in London's Bloomsbury until October, doing contract systems work. My first contract ran out in February when the firm I was contracted to got taken over by Ross Perot's EDS. Perot didn't approve of contract employees, so our contracts were not renewed. I then went back to Marathon Oil in the Marylebone Road as a contractor, and worked there till October. In late October I moved to New York to work for First Boston Corp.
- Birthdays: My mother was 73 in March, my brother Noel was 55 in January, my sister Judith 42 in September. Judith's daughter Tessa was 18 in September; Judith's son Marcus was 8 in January. I was 40 in June.
| Date | From whom | From where | To whom | To where |
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| July 4, 1985 | Muriel Littlehales | Birmingham, England | John Derbyshire | London, England |