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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