He has secured two tickets for the First and Third Ball and describes a dinner and lunch (also attended by Dixen, Mallinson and Wilson of Cambridge) attended by Heppenstall and Bakhle from Oxford. He is finding Plato's Theaetetus 'hard' but 'awfully fascinating' and Plato is 'so all-embracing'. He has been reading essays by the late Times critic A. B. Walkley and R. D. Hicks' book on Stoics and Epicureans.