officient Embajada de Sudafnca basilla 16189 Sartiago bhile, 9 providence and some 29.11.79 my dear houisa that my letter will be forwarded to you, I've I an writing to the only address I have wi the hope heard from Elspeth who heard from Poo that you have moved back who your old house, but nobody around here seems to have the address I thought at first I'd wait until the crises was over but I now feel I must write to let you know that we are thinking of you all constantly. Gideon first artived from school with the story that mike was amongst the hostages w Jehran but we did not believe it until we read the news in the mercuno and subsequently also in Time. Perhaps it may help a little to know that many friends in Santiago are remembering the happy hours we spent with you and are hoping and praying with you I an, of course especially concerned about Duncan Please give him our love. as you see, we are still in Santiago. We really expected to be transferred be the end of this year but it seend that our guesses and the rumours were wrong and that were 3.0 for another spell in Sarwago. Its a pleasant and comfortable life ad we still have good friends but as far as anything 2 official is concerned, I just fue that I've by now done the same things so many times over that I just cannot muster much enthusiasm I've taken a correspondence course 3 Spanish offered by a S. africa University and enjoyed it - not only gramma but also literature and some Spansh history of culture. The book club is flourshing wi spite of differences of opinion about procedure etc. and all the please people in it still give me much pleasure The boys are very well. Yerdward is the tallest member of the family a a fact, I think, not very much appreciated by gideon. He (Ferdinand) goes his own serene way, sloes very will at school and bothers nobody. By and large we are grateful to nido for the happy years the boys have spent there gideon is in the throes of his last days at school. ste will be returning to S.A. meach year to study, has been accepted by the University of Stellerbooch near bape your (my alma mater). If all goes according to plan are I shall January. accompany hem to S.A. towards the and of This and the boys send their fondest wrshes, With all my love Chrotine Puraai IIIII HAM PLEASE VIA AEREA FORWARD VIA AERE -VIA AEREA E HINGTONS 30: PM 3 98 REOS DECHILES MAIL EARL 1979 FOR CHRIS TM CHILE PORTE PAGADO * F 422 Mrs. Lousa Kennedy 5021 Macomb St N.W. Washington D.C. 20016 Est KEN 21 27083071 12/08/79 KENNEDY FOREIGN SER L.OUNGE/DERT OF ATE 3932 Huntanton WASHING LON DC 20520 St. N.W. work D.OC. C. 20015 IIII 1111 Embajada de la República de Sud Africa Casilla 16189 Santiago 9 - Chile - IB 30 NOV. 1979 $8.118