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GLENSMERE, OTTAWA.
Room #410, Booth Building,
Sparks Street,
0 T T A W A.

31st October, 1924.

My dear Colonel Buchan,

I am sending by this mail, in
care of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Quebec,
an inscribed copy of "Canadian Constitutional Studies",
being a print of three 1ectures delivered at the University
of Toronto three years ago; also two addresses delivered in
recent years. That which is reprinted from the Yale Review
embodies the principal part of an address before
the American Historical Association in December, 1922.

I also venture to send a
collection of pamphlets, in which are to be found speeches
delivered during the War. My temerity in this respect
may receive fitting punishment in their consignment to
the wild Atlantic in the wake of the good ship Empress of
France.

My Report on the Disarmament
Conference at Washington is sent because it contains the
most concise report of that Conference which I have
hitherto found available. The principal part of it was
drafted by my former Secretary, Mr. Loring C. Christie (now
living in London), although I devoted a good deal of time to
it. Sir John Jordan was good enough to send me a very
appreciative letter after I had forwarded a copy to him,
and the Belgians told me that they used this report as the
basis of their own. However, my particular reason for sending
it is the hope that you may be good enough to read Paragraphs
110 to 116, which are to be found at Pages 44 to 47.

Yours faithfully,
R.L. Borden

Colonel John Buchan,
c/o Canadian Pacific Rai lway Co.,
Quebec, P. Q.