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THE TOWER HOUSE,
TITE STREET,
CHELSEA, S.W.

11/4/15

Dear Buchan,

May I compliment you on
cap xvii of Vol II of yr. War
History.

The reason I think it so
good is that when I read the
end of it I thought I had
written it.

I had been amusing
myself on a train journey jotting
down my ideas on these
unlovely folk [the Germans], & some of yr.
sentences made me rub my
eyes.

Pereant qui ante nos! [May they perish, who said first what we were going to say.]
But I still think the chapter
jolly good.

Yours ever
L.A. Guillemard