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May 27th 1932

Selham House,
Petworth

Station: Selham, S.R.
Telegraph & Telephone:
Lodsworth 4.

Dear Mr Buchan

I have just parted - alas -
from your delightful Scott,
which has only strengthened
my desire to meet and worship
him in the hereafter, if there
is one. But will Queen
Mary of red-hot memory still
be denounced the "bloody
papist bitch"? The expression
has a peculiar charm for me;