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methods & career in law & politics
surprised & delighted me peculiarly.
You must have taken very great
pains with the details, but the
great merit is the grasp & insight
which you display and which
could only come from an instinctive
appreciation of the man.

The memoir will indeed be
the most precious family portrait
in Scotland, and will be an in
-valuable heirloom at Ardwall.
I am clear that, if you think there
is no disrespect in it, the memoir
should be published for the pub