Since it is now in the public domain that I have left Blain|Southern, although I have been generously allowed to stay in my office, I should perhaps say how much I have enjoyed my brief sojourn in the commercial art world, how grateful I was to Harry Blain for hiring me, and how much I have appreciated the friendship of my colleagues there, as I disappear into pastures new.
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
I look forward to following you in your next venture. Good luck and thank you for your running account of the vicissitudes of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
What next, Charles?
i assumed you would write today about Christopher’s leaving party at the RA, and Alan Moses’s brilliant speech.
It was indeed brilliant and said all that needed to be said magnificently. Charles
How right you are – Johnson is straight-faced and shameless in his blatant truths. That he gets away with it says something very depressing about the electorate, and the Media.