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presumption if I write & tell you so.

You may remember commending a school story of mine
to Messrs Nelson's Readers at Edinburgh. They did not see
their way to accepting the book for publication and I am
not surprised, for school stories are all too plentiful
on this side of the Atlantic. But I am not without hopes
that my tale will find a home elsewhere. (In any case
it [at least the operative part of of it] has already been in private
circulation for a considerable time, & has not been without
result).

Meanwhile, as a final contribution to my I.O. work, I
am engaged on a collection of Documents illustrative of the
progress & record of the British Administration in India since
the transfer from the Company to the Crown. If published, this
will - I hope - serve as a reference book, giving chapter and
verse for the view which, as your Memoir shows, Lord Minto
and Lord Morley held in common, that the British can survey their
work in India "with clear gaze & good conscience".

When we met in the train going up to Oxford in the early summer
I was not aware that as I took my M.A. degree I should
find graduating as B.A. the son of "Nelson, of Univ." It
was a curious coincidence, which seemed to afford Farquharson
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