Sir John Curle KCVO CMG Director of Protocol Government Secretariat Lower Albert Road HONG KONG
HKK020/548/5
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7 September 1976
Personal held
tom Stewart:
1. Your letter of 24 August has now turned up. It looks as if there was some hiccup in the bag services as it arrived four or five days after HE's letter of 28 August.
2.
I really am most grateful for the amount of trouble you are putting in over this visit of mine. I do hope that you are not coming out to Kai Tak on a Saturday evening just for my benefit. If so, a junior official or a driver would be sufficient. However, with becoming modesty I assume that you are also coming to meet the two MPs.
3. The Furama would be fine. I have never stayed there before but have eaten there and assumed from its splendour that it would be too expensive for me. It is certainly much more convenient than the Hong Kong Hotel, although I have found in the past that five minutes on the Star ferry in the morning and in the evening got me to and from Hong Kong without any difficulty.
4. I said in my telegram that I would be happy to stay on until 16th. I still think this is worth doing. However, I may take HE and you up on your kind suggestion that I should come back a day earlier if it looks, say half way through my visit, that there will be no need for me to stay on until 16th. This, of course, will be subject to HE's and Philip Haddon-Cave's convenience.
5. I have spoken to Denys Roberts about his kind invitation for me to stay with him and he quite understands that I would find it more convenient to be in an hotel for half of my visit.
JA B Stewart