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21, ARLINGTON STREET, S.W.1. 1st, March, 1920. Dear Mr. Buchan, I shall certainly read with very great interest your Memoir of Francis and Rivy Grenfell, and should be delighted to look through the Proofs. As to myself writing a few lines, I am afraid that I should hardly be able to do that. In a sense I knew them very well - that is, their company was a great pleasure to me and the like, but I knew literally nothing of what may be called the inside of their lives and minds. I was a very great friend, but in no sense an intimate. However, it is possible that your Memoir will suggest something to me which I might be able to say. A great friend of mine, Colonel Holt, asked me, if you wanted any revision of the Proofs of his contribution to some publication of yours, whether I could undertake to do the work. If it is of any assistance, I should be delighted to do it, as I told him. I remain, Yours very sincerely, Hugh Cecil