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NEWLANDS CORNER, MERROW DOWNS, GUILDFORD.
Station: Clandon, L. & S.W.R Telephone No: Guildford 342
11th September, 1922
My dear Buchan,
Just a line before I start to say that I am arranging with Johnnie Atkins to do a review of your book. Unfortunately, not knowing about it, we have had a leader done upon Maurice, which, of course, is not nearly as important as your pronouncement of Lloyd George. It was stupid of us to have made a muddle; but you may be quite sure that your book will not be forgotten. I only wish I could have done it myself! I have read all the extracts about L.G., and, as you know, it is a matter I have studied carefully, and I do honestly say that there has been nothing approaching it for justice, good sense and knowledge. It is simply A.1.
I suppose you would not take it, but I should love to see you Editor of the Times. You would do the thing to perfection. Indeed, without flattery, I know of no-one who would fit my ideal of judicial journalism as well as you.
We start at cockcrow tomorrow for three weeks in Provence. It is a bore to be out of the country when my book appears, but I could not arrange anything else.
Yours ever,
J. StLoe Strachey [proCt.?]
