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I am so looking forward to seeing you [Yours ever] Mary Minto

WINDSOR CASTLE

April 23/ 24

My dear Mr Buchan

I do like your "conclusion" most awfully & fully realize the trouble you have taken - it is wonderful to feel that the great work is finished, except for a word here & there, & I long to see it all in print

I think you have made an admirable summing up of his character. The Esmond part is charming, & I love the sentence that ends the biography, it wd. appeal to both of them. I hardly know how to thank you for having

thrown yourself into my life in order to accomplish this Memoir, & in the midst of all your other labours it must have taxed you almost beyond your powers of endurance!! but I like to feel that it has been worth it, & that

you are happy in having given the public a true picture of Minto's character. I return to London May 1st. would you have time for a meeting Friday 2nd? or perhaps you do not come to London on Fridays in wh. case it wd. have to be whenever you can spare the time on Monday or any day after. May we leave the 5 chapters

just send them to Edin:

till we have met. I wd. so like you to tell me what sort of book you intend having. The slip proof means the permanent print I suppose. As we have waited till now perhaps one more week will not matter, & I also want to show you the photos, I have

taken them to Carlton Terrace. Francis & Eileen have not gone - the day before they were to sail little Pamela developed a mastoid, & had a desperate operation on Good Friday. On Sunday we were dreadfully anxious. She is doing

well thank God, but will not be out of the wood for several more days. It has been a terrible upset. We have had a long day at Wembley & I went out later with the Queen, so hadn't a second to read your Conclusion till just before dinner.