Letter by Sir Edward Grigg [later Lord Altrincham] (Minister Resident in the Middle East, Cairo [Egypt]) to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] marked "private and personal" commenting on the British intervention in Syria, his concern about the effects of the subdivision of his constituency [Altrincham, Cheshire], the likely difficulty of tripartite conversations involving the French and the "utterly stupid callousness" of the recent French behaviour towards the Syrians and Lebanese, his concern about food supplies, and an attack on his wife apparently by " a man escaped out of the Indian camp for mentally affected soldiers". He also refers to the forthcoming General Election, "The world will go very queer for a bit if England loses its judgement and fails to give us a good majority". Typescript with hand-written addition.