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[added at 90°, from left margin:] very much like to see you again when I get back to London. Perhaps you will dine with me some night if you are not too busy. Again very many thanks.
Yours very sincerely
Algernon Cecil
[normal orientation:] La Boyssonade, Bellagio, Italy.
June 7th 1909
Dear Buchan
it was more than kind of you to write and I cannot say how much I appreciated your letter. I hope someday to write
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a better book and one more worth attention but it is very pleasant to find that so experienced a critic as yourself found something to like in this one.
Of course I fully understand that your generous sympathy was tempered at times by deep-seated disagreement. That was
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inevitable in the circumstances. But this only throws a stronger light on your appreciation and makes one realise by one example the more how keen is the wish among all men, who are not playing for their own hand, to reach a common basis of thought and action.
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Without this I doubt if any age can leave any lasting monument or achieve anything really great. Whether the Church can still offer such a basis is of course a different & far more controversial question.
I am hoping to drive over the Splügen this week & then spend some little time in Switzerland but I should
