2110-3-9-17

59 PALL MALL LONDON S.W.1.

[ST: Sir Robert Horne]

20th April 1921

My dear John,

I would have been delighted to get your brother in to the House on Monday but it is closed to all strangers at present - oweing to Sinn Fein threats - and the galleries are empty; so I cant do the service you ask.

Why have I not

seen you for so long? When I saw your signature I realized what the great vacancy in my life was! We must forgather when these troubles are quieted. In the meantime I am a slave, & by the end of the year at the Exchequer I shan't have a friend; but it is fun, though I go down the drain at the last.

Ever Yours

Bertie