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Ardwall, Gatehouse on Fleet. N.B.
Tuesday 22d. [July 1913?]
My dear John
As I said yesterday words cannot express my gratitude for such a life like, & delightful memoir of my dear Lord Ardwall. no one could have done the thing but you, for, although many knew him as well, I don't think anyone
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appreciated him, or took hold of the best of his character as you did - he had so much strength, and so much gentleness and sweetness withal - & certainly none who knew him, could possibly have expressed the thing as you can. Johnnie quite agrees with me, that it should be done publicly - and I will
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say later how many copies I want, to give to friends - You will see that we want the Bile beans story to go in - I have put a note at the word "Silenus" - for you to consider about - That was an awfully good thing about the "unwelcome civilization" & the McCullochs. I sometimes think that one has an impulse towards savagery sometimes - perhaps
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all the Scotch have it - certainly the Irish - but one must struggle against it. Also that about the de- nationalized Scotch lairds. I fear the old thorough Scotchman is disappearing. Lord A. was one of the last, and there is no one left that I can think of the least like them - everyone now is the product of an English, or Anglicised, boarding school - I enclose this in Johnnie's.
Yours very sincerely
C.R. McCulloch Jameson.
