FEBRUARY 28, 1944
 
Dear Mackenzies:-
 
 
               Yours of the twenty-third has been forwarded to me up here at Hyde Park where I am
going to be until next Wednesday.
 
               I do hope that Mr. Massey will still be in Washington when I get there, for I should love
to see him before he  returns to London.
 
              I came up here the day before the teapot boiled over in the Senate and had no intimation
that it would explode. However, I am sure that poor old Barkley would not have done it had he
not been extraordinarily tired-- and on top of that Mrs. Barkley has been very ill. I do not worry in
the least. It is not much more than a "nine days wonder."
 
               I am having some real sleep up here and practically all my work consists in keeping
closely in touch with the news from the fronts.
 
               Take care of yourself and do let me know the next time you come South.
 
Affectionately,
 
Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King,
    Primes Minister of Canada,
        Ottawa,
            Canada.