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Government House,
Cape Town.

19th. April, 1920.

My dear Colonel Buchan,
I received your book on the South Africans in France a
few weeks ago, as well as your covering letter.

I am very much indebted to you for sending it to me,
and I delayed acknowledging it until I had had an opportunity
of reading it; I have been rather specially pressed of late.

I have read it with extreme interest. If I may say
so, the descriptions of the various battles can be clearly
understood, even by a person like myself who has no expert
knowledge. This is really a high compliment as I find
it very difficult as a rule to understand detailed accounts of battles.

I need hardly say that being so intimately connected
with South Africa during the whole period of the War, I
have read your account of the doings of the South Africans
with the utmost pleasure and satisfaction.

There are some things in your book which I shall take
an opportunity of quoting in speeches.