2110-2-16-23

Dictated [underlined] 4, CARLTON GARDENS, PALL MALL, S.W.

Private [underlined]

Oct: 30th 1916

My dear John Buchan

To my great delight I have just got your last Romance. As you know how much I admire your work, you can easily conceive my satisfaction. How you

can find time and strength to interpolate these parerga into the middle of your other labours I cannot imagine.

Yours sincerely

Arthur James Balfour