[1] The author is then sent to Burma and he documents his time there, suffering all the racism that was ever present in colonial India towards the first half of the twentieth century.

In Burma, he befriended his superior, and when with him, is treated to a life that he had known not since he had left England.

He is able to attend the clubs whilst in this man's company, and is sometimes invited to make up a bridge four.

The British Library's on-line catalogue cites a Publisher's Note in later reprints by Futura 1978(1979) and Mandarin 1992 which mentions claims that the entire work is fiction without, however, endorsing the claims or naming the claimants.

The aforementioned Publisher's Note identifies the author of the letters in this anonymous and frequently reprinted work are addressed as Dorothy Black (niece of Frederick Delius), a prolific novelist from 1916 to 1974, who had also written about life in Burma.