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3.

final words on the Battle
of the Somme appealed to me
even more. Of my six friends
who were at my 21st dinner,
at Cambridge, twelve years
ago, all were killed in
France; & your beautiful words
so expressed what I often
feel & they have really given
me comfort.

If it does not
seem impertinent of me to
say so, your history of the