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Telegraphic Address
Beaver - Stock - London

Telephone
London Wall 5506

Hudson's Bay Company.
Incorporated 2nd May 1670
Hudson's Bay House
London - E - C - 2

Oct. 26/1937

Dear Lord Tweedsmuir,

Thank you very much for your letter which
reached me this morning and for the copy of
Augustus which reached me last Saturday
night. I am simply enthusiastic about
it and I especially enjoyed the constitutional
part which sets down so clearly what
so far had only been described in
almost uncomprehensible prose by other
historians. I certainly had not foreseen
the American interpretation of your
book. I hope they will not think
that under the excuse of Augustus
you presented them with a study
of President Roosevelt and his administration
or that like Machiavelli in his Prince you
wrote it in order to show them the dictator's
progress. I must say that I was incredibly