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[in pencil] (-to GILBERT MURRAY)
Telegrams_Checkendon.
Checkendon Court,
near Reading.
July:15:15
My dear Murray
It was a very great pleasure to hear from you again I am so glad you approve of my little history. Praise from you is praise indeed. I suppose that the detachment which makes me such a wretched politician is an advantage
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in writing contemporary history.
I am so sorry to hear that you have been unwell. It is a horrible time to have to take to one's bed. I hope you are getting well now.
I wish we could ever meet. I think I have read everything you have written in the past year and greatly admired it. Your pamphlet on E. Grey
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is perfectly admirable & most useful.
I have never been so hustled in my life. Two of my partners & 67% of our male employees are with the Colours. My remaining partner, most of our managers & some more of our men are with the Munitions Department. So I have the whole business on my hands, besides a lot of Foreign Office work. I should have been out in France a month
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ago with the French staff, but I cannot get away. Still it is a good thing to be very busy in a time like this, when most of one's friends have fallen. It prevents brooding.
I often wonder how Denis is getting on. I hope Lady Mary is well. I hear excellent accounts of Michael's work.
Yours ever
John Buchan
