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[in pencil: Acknow.]

Personal

Glenrothay
York Rd
Cheam

30th August 1929

Dear Mr Buchan

I have just finished reading, for the first time,
your memoir of Lord Minto (it is one of the privileges of
retirement from the Civil Service that one has an opportunity
of reviewing events which one had seen from a particular
angle, from another, quite different, point of view). You
will not expect me, as an Ex-Ass^t Private Sec^ry to Lord
Morley, to endorse all you say of the relations between
my S[ecretary] of S[tate] & your Viceroy, but as one who took his share
in trying to smooth down my old Chief's ruffled plumage -
"tantrums" would hardly be too strong a word - I must admit
the general truth of your estimate; and I cannot refrain
from writing to tell you how sincere is my admiration
for your presentment of Lord Minto's character and
achievements. To a private tutor with a strong
distaste for anything approaching "preachment", pages such
as those with which you end your book are as gold and
silver; and I hope you will not think it an unwarrantable
/presumption