From M. A. Hall Frankenwald, c/0 University of the Witwitisrand Johannesburg AFRIQUE DU SUD Mr and Mrs R. Steinhardt 9 Rue Roger Bacon PARIS 17 FRANCE 8th March, 1963 Dear Mom and Richard, I have just sent you a telegram to say that the appeal failed for Eve and the other three. But, you know, all the lawyers told us there was not much chance of anything being taken off the sentence. I did hope hard, of course, but it is just as well it's over and we know where we stand. We set so little store by it that we expected the disappointments. The day before yesterday a Sunday Times reporter went up to Pietersburg and was shown around the prison. The reporter, Margaret Smith, whom we know fairly well, got permission to do a story on the women's section. Yesterday she was able to give me quite a detailed account of regulations and routine. She saw Eve and the other three sitting with the rest of the women in a sort of sewing room where they do crochet work all day. They gave her a big
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