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COCOA TREE CLUB, 64, ST JAMES'S STREET, S.W.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. c/o COCOA LONDON. TELEPHONE No 3869.
3 Temple Gardens, E.C.
Dec: 15: 1900
My dear Lady Mary
Many thanks for writing me such a long kind letter. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Oxford. I have been often in Surrey lately and always hoping to get over to see you, but somehow Churt has always turned out to be about 20
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miles away. But after Xmas when I come back from Scotland I am going to write in the most barefaced way and invite myself for a night.
The 'Half-hearted' is a stupid book, written during a period of violent prejudice at Oxford. I should not write it now – but indeed now I shall write nothing but a few short stories and my great legal work
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on Lord Mansfield. I am devilling for Rowlatt, the AttorneyGeneral's junior, and of late months, Strachey being in Egypt, I have had a lot of work with the Spectator. I see Geoffrey sometimes – generally in a great fur coat like a rich South African. I am very busy just now changing my rooms – please write new address, as tradesmen say – and getting new furniture. I think they
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are going to be very nice, and I hope you will remember some of your promises to come & have tea in them when you are next in town.
I am going to revisit Glasgow after Xmas to lecture. I hope to see the Phillimores.
With kind regards to your husband & the children
Yours very sincerely
John Buchan
