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[letterhead] Hotel d'Angleterre Luchon Seghin, Prop L'Hiver a Pau: Le Grand-Hotel
14th August 1923.
My dear John,
It's a far cry from Loch Maree to the Pyrenees, but your cheerful voice was quite audible in your delightful letter. I feel immensely set up by your general retainer & feel inclined to add after my name "Counsel to John Buchan & other crowned & uncrowned heads". But I really do have compunctions about that cheque. However since you bid me keep it under grave penalties, I shall do so for its symbolic worth & I intend to aquire with it the complete pocket edition of John Buchan's
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works just issued. And be very sure of this that if "any business results", I mean if you should actually need my services, they shall be entirely rendered for love favour & affection.
I'm glad you've been having so good a holiday in the North - it will do you both a world of good to be in these dear Highland places & with company so delectable. But I gather it's a short holiday since you are so soon to be home again.
Your suggestion that we might look you up on our way to Worcester is most attractive. Is it possible that you could receive us on Monday the
27th or Tuesday the 28th of August? and put us up & put up with us till Thursday the 30th? We should love to come. We have promised to spend the nights of the 30th to 31st with friends near Basingstoke & are due at Worcester on Saturday 1st September. Will you drop me a postcard addressed to me at: Hôtel des Dunes, BEG MEIL, Finistère, FRANCE?
We are leaving here tonight after a delightful but grilling fortnight and are moving our camp to Brittany in search of cooling breezes, before we melt away entirely. The temperature has been hovering about 90 even up
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here - at Toulouse last week it was 111° in the shade - & everyone says they have never had such a hot time of it. However, I wanted for once to get really warm & now I've had the experience.
We met an old bird here called Williams, a London Stockbroker, who professes to have met you & wishes to be remembered to you. He had something to do with Reuter's Bank.
With our best love,
Ever yours,
H.P. Macmillan
(Counsel to the King & John Buchan)
