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18, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE,
S.W.1.

March 30 / 19.

Dear Colonel Buchan,

Many thanks for your
most kind letter. I am so grateful
to you for the thought you have given
to the matter. I fully realize
your difficulties, & know what a
mountain of work is before you,
but I am dreadfully disappointed
that you have decided it would be
impossible for you to undertake
Minto's biography, as in spite
of not knowing him, I believe you
would have been able to bring out his