2110-2-3-6

Dictated

4, CARLTON GARDENS, PALL MALL, S.W.

Private

Nov: 24th 1908

Dear Mr. Buchan

I am very grateful to you for sending me your book.

I have an almost morbid passion for Essays, thinking them (rightly or wrongly) to express the essential spirit of their writers in a more undiluted form

than longer and more elaborate performances.

It is very kind of you to have sent me your collection, and I can promise myself the pleasure of reading it with more than the usual security that the promise will be speedily

fulfilled!

Yours sincerely

Arthur James Balfour