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4 Brick Court
Temple

Nov: 17: 1900

My dear Willie

I ought to have written some
time ago to thank you for your letter
about All Souls. I felt annoyed at the
time but have forgotten it now. It seems
to have been a very close thing, and I had
heaps of letters from different All Souls fellows
saying how disappointed they were. I seem to
have fallen between two stools. The
historians, following the ridiculous custom of