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Indian Corps Troops S.L. temporarily alld. to G.H.Q. Troops S.L. B.E.F.
31 Dec 1915
Dear Mr Buchan.
This is just to wish you the very best during 1916. I hope that this New Year may see the commencement of the career I have long foreseen for you - a shaper and maker of a stronger England more conscious of its powers. I believe that if there is a man now living
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born to be a great public servant that man is you. There are few who see so clearly, there is almost none who 'synthesises' with the completeness and the power that you do. I feel sure that you cannot stop where you are - that your most brilliant history, a work of contemporaneous utility only comparable to Russell's Crimean Letters and greater than them as the occasion is greater, is only the first step in a course which will end with fame to yourself and advantage to your country.
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At the end of this old troublous year, I want to thank you for the kindness you have so consistently shown to me throughout it. If I can every repay you, I will. If in the 'Reconstruction Period' you want a faithful henchman
I am
Yours to command
F. Britten Austin [ST - could this be Britten Austin]
