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8 Hereford Gardens - W.

28. iii. 06 [1916 I think JAS.]

Dear John,

This beats a'. - the original Happy Warrior is
one of the dullest, most pompous & pharisaical
products of old William the Wordster; your
revived version is one of the most sparkling &
truthful presentments. The former might really have
been written by Simon the Apostate; yours Mr Pope
might have envied in its felicitous facility.
Demmy Sir! if the Italian postage wasn't so heavy
I'd send a copy after the bugger to Rome.

But you mark it "Most Secret" - Not even
Mrs. Coalsacks? You must however send one
to Milner.

I pray you write now an expurgation of the
soul of the other Dromeo? - a small thing but his
own: - "the prayer of self appreciation of the
Wee Free elder." For Squiff is incomplete
without his Bonar.

I dreamed a licentious dream the other
night of Bonar taken in adultery. He