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58, YAMASHITA-CHO,
YOKOHAMA.
21st January 1921.

Lieut.Col.John Buchan,
LONDON.

Dear Colonel Buchan;

Thank you for your note of December 7th. I am
very glad that the cigarette holder proves to your satisfaction.

As a Christmas present I had given me your Memoir
of the Grenfell Twins, and I should like to say how very much I
appreciated reading it. Of course you had wonderful material to
work upon, but if I may say so I do think you have conveyed an
atmosphere in the Memoir, as well as I recollect ever finding it done
and I could hardly put the book down once I had begun it. As you
say, it does take us back to a time that we shall never again see,
and the people who have been fortunate enough to experience some
taste of it owe you deeply for the record you have made.

It has been a privilege to get into the intimate
touch with the Grenfells that your book enables one to do, and I
should like to send a small thankoffering to be contributed to
the fund for invalid children.

At the moment there is not a great deal to tell you
about happenings out here. General Woodroffe has now left for home
via Suez, and should be in England some time in March. If you
happen to meet him and talk on things Japanese he can give you as
good information as anybody.

Robert Loraine was through here the other day, and
I saw something of him. He certainly is an entertaining fellow,
and it is a great pleasure to come across folk of that sort from
time to time. If at any time you have friends of yours passing
through here and would give them a letter to me, I shall be
delighted to do anything I can for them.

With best regards,

Yours very sincerely,

A.P. Scott.

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