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Merrimans' at Harvard. I was taken to my
first American football match - a gory scene. That
night there was a dinner party of Harvard dignitaries,
including the President. On Sunday we motored to
Groton, the great school, and I went to chapel with the boys
& had to disperse my autograph freely. In the evening another
dinner party of young men.
To day has been a heavy day. I was shown over
Harvard in the morning, lunched in the Faculty, [was] the was
entertained at the fashionable undergraduates' club, &
finally at 4.30 addressed a crowded audience in
Boston - so packed that about half couldn't get in. Susie
says I did well, and it was certainly an inspiring
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._Merriman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton_School
Roger Merriman was a contemporary of JB's at Oxford. He wrote about their friendship in 'John Buchan by his Wife and Friends'.
Merriman's son, Dan, wrote about the Buchans' visit to Groton, where he was a pupil, in 'John Buchan by his Wife and Friends'.
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