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Jim has turned into a Radio maniac & my life is wrecked now by excited summons to listen to Paris Rome & Berlin at all odd moments
8, GOWER STREET, BLOOMSBURY.
Dec 20 1925
My dear John
I send you as requested a letter & enclosure from Mackenzie King. You will read his account of the situation with great interest. Mackenzie King is blessed with imagination & I do think it's a real brain wave to suggest that you should succeed Lord Byng as Governor General. What a relief to have two people like you & Susie instead of the correct &
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conventional peer usually selected for these posts. I dont know of course whether the suggestion is practical or not - whether you could & would & if the Government here would forego a post normally ear marked for a supporter.
However you can only be touched & pleased by Mackenzie King's feeling for you. I am feeling very uneasy about him. My strong instinct is that
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he makes a mistake in hanging on & would do much better to resign. He asked for a working majority & didn't get it. In those circumstances I should leave Meighen to hold the baby. Anything is better than the shifts & compromises to which a government without a majority is driven.
Is there any chance of seeing you before Xmas? I shall be in to lunch tomorrow
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Monday or Wednesday 1.30. I should like to talk to you about Mackenzie King;s letter. I dont say much today about my chronic grievance against you & Susie but it's as deep & as bitter as ever! We never see each other & soon I shall be dead & then even the chance will be gone! Bless you both my dearest friends
your devoted
Violet [Markham]
