December 3, 1942.                      
 
                          Dear Dickie :-                    
 
                                                            
 
 
General Smith came to dinner on Tuesday and gave me that delightful 
      badge. It is a perfect symbol for our joint operations, and I 
      would have given anything in the world to have been with you 
      in the Northwest African show. Incidentally, I think it was a 
      good idea to change the albatross into an eagle -- because Coleridge 
      has taught us that a gun and an albatross together bring bad 
                              luck|                         
 
                                                            
 
 
My wife has come back thrilled by all of her trip and her 
         visit has, I think, done good in both countries.   
 
                                                            
 
 
Give my love to Edwina and tell her I hope that the flocks 
      of uniformed ladies from our American armed forces who are winging 
          their way to England are behaving themselves.     
 
                                                            
 
 
                     Always sincerely,                      
 
                         (Signed F.D.R.)                    
 
                     Lord Louis Mountbatten,                
 
                          The Admiralty,                    
 
                             London,                        
 
      England.