ABSTRACT
"Ariadne is entirely miserable every moment of the time out of London. She has to be without her special aids in August, but leaving home as well is the last straw," Adrian Stokes wrote after abandoning hope of going to stay in Cornwall again in August 1965. " At first she was well enough to be left in London while Stokes went with Ann in early summer 1970 on a two week Mediterranean cruise which took them to Turkey where he was disappointed that the Byzantine mosque of Santa Sophia was closed due to that day marking the anniversary of the capture of Istanbul by the Ottoman empire on 29 May 1453. An appointment was scheduled for Ariadne at Delrow House on 8 May 1971. But Stokes and Ann were unwilling to stop her medication so she could be assessed without it to see if she could become a resident there.
