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Cornbury Park,
Charlbury,
Oxfordshire

Telephone
1, Charlbury

28 April 1922.

My dear Buchan,

A thousand thanks for the volume
of the History of the Great War. I wish that I
had been able to thank you personally; but I was on
the shelf, & am only just down stairs again.

I have begun to read your account of the battle of
Jutland: and it is very thrilling. The only
account that I have previously read of it was in a
book called "The Navy in Battle", by Arthur Pollen,
which was evidently written with the object of
depreciating Jellicoe; but the only effect that it
had on me was to make me think that Jellicoe was
perfectly right not to run unlimited risks.

As we were, we were the pivot of the allies at sea;
and, if we lost that position, a winning position,
we were done.

Many thanks again for your book.

Tomorrow to the funeral of a very old friend, who