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a value six times what Sir Andrew paid. But the Bart is such a good chap & the picture so suitably housed that my tears have long been dry.

Love to Susie

Yours ever

Stair A Gillon

[in margin:] P.S. The B.N.C. Samurai of the nineties were on the whole the best undergraduates who ever graced Oxford. Fun, strength, solidity, "unsnobbishness", tolerance!

S.A.G.

I met W B Stuart for the 1st time & fell a victim to his charm straight away

S.

NEW CLUB EDINBURGH

7th Oct: 1925.

My dear John,

many thanks for yours re Lord Haig. I never fancied anything except a cheery word from Hunter-Bunter [ST: General Hunter Weston]. It must be very hard on the F.M. to find anything new to say, & he has so much to do.

I had hoped it wouldn't take so long as the 15th Nov: but it isn't my pigeon. I am

functus officio as soon as the maps are fixed in their places.

Your 21st Regt. is really British Military History with the 21st as the hero. I delighted in the Marlborough campaigns and I am specially looking forward to the Crimea.

Sir Andrew has reproduced very well. I wish you had been able to put "in the possession of Stair A. Gillon in Edin[burg]h", but I lost my chance when my brother sold it to Sir Andrew. I was frightened off by the suggestion that Carr wd. put