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June 11. 1919
STATES HOUSE, MEDMENHAM, MARLOW, BUCKS.
My dear John, How awfully good & kind of you to send me 'These for Remembrance'. I appreciate it enormously but have qualms of conscience. I certainly would never have asked for a copy had I taken in how few were printed. I will write a note on the first page in which you have written my name to say that it is to go [to] Brasenose eventually - no one can appreciate it more than Margaret & I do, especially the notice of Jack Wortley. I also knew Basil Blackwood the youth & I took a great fancy to Cecil Rawling who came to [B?] & made friends, he gave me his book on New Guinea. He was a perfect type of a British Officer & explorer & so modest withal. What a loss he is! I should have liked to have known them all & feel now almost as if I had
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The remembrances are very touching & faithful pictures delined with deep pathos & delicacy of touch. What better memorial could these fine characters have?
I look forward with great pleasure to your little visit to us.
Again thanking you for a present I value so much
Yrs very sincerely
Reginald Talbot
[ST: uncle to Susan Buchan]
