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[Salisbury]

Regent 500

21, ARLINGTON STREET,
S. W. 1.

July 11th 1927

My dear Mr Buchan,

I must send you these few words of congratu-
lation on the immense success of your maiden speech.
Everyone speaks of it with enthusiasm and of its point and
brilliancy, and I am very very sorry not to have heard it,
though I have read it with the greatest interest and
admiration, and was also so impressed by all you said, not
only in deference to the House of Lords, but of what you
said about the backwoodsmen that never is said, and it is
so immensely true; I often wonder whether that unobtrusive
unknown work in far off localities is not really more
valuable than much of so called political work, in as much
as it is less dependent on other people than politics is
bound to be in its great world; but that is apart from the
subject! You will of course imagine that I did not feel
exactly as you did throughout, or rather that there were
points which came into one's mind apart from that you put
so well. We do indeed most fully and deeply agree on the
sanity of the English people; the trust that can and must be
put in their clear sightedness & moderation, and in that