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CATHARINE LODGE,
TRAFALGAR SQUARE,
CHELSEA, S.W.

18 Nov 1913

My dear John

I have to thank you warmly
for the copy of Ardwall which greets
me here on my return, & to thank you
for having written it. It is just what
it should be, concise & picturesque. One
may regret thet you have not given more
of the ipsissima verba of his talk, which
was fit to rank with Braxfields at times
but perhaps you have used a wise discretion.
Your observation that he was not cocksure
of what was true, but had an unerring