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Laurier House, Ottawa
January 21, 1936.
My dear Governor General:
May I express to your Excellency my sincere sympathy in the loss you have sustained in the passing of King George V, in whose representative you have been in affairs alike of State and Church, and whose personal friendship you so greatly enjoyed.
At this time, it must greatly comfort your heart
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to know that it was your high privilege during His late Majesty's life time, and in association with His Majesty's Silver Jubilee, to write of the King's grace. It has been given to few to write of their Sovereign from the beginning of his reign to its close. Your Excellency's tribute in the morning papers is all that is now required to make the Epilogue complete.
With my sincere sympathy in the loss of so good and great and true a friend,
Believe me
Yours very sincerely,
W L MacKenzie King
His Excellency The Rt Hon'able Lord Tweedsmuir KG.C.M.G. etc. etc.
Government House