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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