Alpha conveyed greetings, prayed for the recipient's health, invoked the memory of the dead, and wrote hereby merely to inform them of the sender's situation, the dislocations and hardships of the war.

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She wrote numerous advice books, including "Ten Days To A Successful Memory" (1964), "Positive Plus: The Practical Plan for Liking Yourself Better" (1995) and "Widowed" (1992), a guide to dealing with grief written after the death of her husband in 1990.

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"The memory of these events is still too painful, " she wrote in 1982.

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"Mr Major emerges from his hundred days the best-loved prime minister in living memory, his opinion poll ratings a consistent glow of approval, " wrote Peter Jenkins in The Independent.

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"Old Winthrop, that day he wrote a cheque for five grand and put it in the chapel fund, " smiles Daniel Merry, savouring the memory.

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