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Plymouth, England, 16th August, 1954.
Dear Miss Symes:—
Now I had better explain just who I am and my reasons for writing to you at the very start of this letter or else you are going to be in a bit of a fog. My name is Michael Browne and I am a Royal Marine Commando more properly I was a Commando, but now I am in another branch of the Marines, and I was brought to Christ through the instrumentality of a tract that you gave me when I was staying at the Sandes' Home in Singapore just before Christmas 1950. Why I have not written until now I just do not know....
On the morning that we left the Home, you had just brought us some coffee, and had phoned for a taxi, and before the taxi arrived you sat down at the table and started to talk to us. You asked us if we ever read our New Testaments; the answer was, "No", and then you offered my friend a little booklet to read, "written by a New Zealand business man", I remember you told us. He said that he wanted nothing to do with it, and then you offered it to me. What made me accept it, I do not know, or rather I didn't know then, but now I know that it was the mercy of God leading me to the Cross of Christ. Well, I took the booklet called "The Reason Why", and put it in my case and forgot all about it. We left the Home and started our journey back to Ipoh. You had packed us off with sandwiches, and when we came to unwrap them we found that you had placed tracts in each package. Mine read, "What God says about Drunkenness, etc.", and I was most annoyed at being forced to read this whilst eating my sandwiches.