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3, TEMPLE GARDENS, TEMPLE.
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My dear old Nan
I am sending you to day the book on the Alps. I think it a very good book and certainly the pictures are most admirable. Between pp. 150 and 175 you will see some of the chief Zermatt peaks. I am sure you will like the view of the Matterhorn on p. 156. On p. 166 the rock on the left is the Riffelhorn – you can see our chimney quite
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plainly. On p. 192 you have the other side of the Riffelhorn, just above the little Riffelsee which was filled with water when we passed. In the foreground of the picture, just below the Snows of the Dent Blanche, you see the Unter Gabelhorn, where we scrambled the first day.
I also send you 'Blackwood' with the review of my book.
I am having a very busy week both with law-work & the 'Spectator'.
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Strachey's activities are unmodified by the Chertsey election where he is working for the Liberal candidate. You will see a very good letter of William's to the Spec. this week on the Native Feeling about the War in the Far East. I asked him to write something, and of course he will be paid for it.
I am having a much quieter week, and had Monday night to myself & hope to have to-night. Last night I dined with a S. African magistrate whom I had
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the honour of appointing. He is home to be married. I am plaguing the authorities just now in my efforts to find a place for little Caddell, who used to be at Hutchinson's & who is dissatisfied with his present prospects.
I found the following poem of F.W. Myers the other day, on the grave of a climber at Grindelwald, which I thought very good –
"Here let us leave him; for his shroud the snow, For funeral lamps he has the planets seven, For a great sign the icy stair shall go Between the heights to heaven.
One moment stood he as the angels stand, High in the stainless eminence of air; The next, he was not, to his fatherland Translated unaware."
Much love to all
Yours affectionately
John Buchan
