Saturday 3rd October 1936

Visited John in the London Hospital Ophthalmic Ward. Found Margaret sitting beside his bed! John was heavily bandaged and had many half healed cuts on his face and right wrist. He could still laugh however, and gave us a dramatic account of the explosion and his subsequent sufferings. (H2SO4 + KmnO4)

Came back with Margaret as far as Piccadilly Circus. Then I walked to Sloane Square (across Hyde Park) and took the tube to Hawthorn Court.