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[Lord Byng]

Thorpe-Le-Soken Essex Thorpe-Le-Soken 27.

Thorpe Hall Thorpe-Le-Soken Essex.

June 22nd 1928

Beloved John,

You've won! I have just received two letters from Stamfordham and Jix which makes it impossible for me to refuse without the thought that I had turned my country down.

I must take it but with the most serious misgivings, and

to do my best.

I want your sympathy and I know I have your affection.

How the shades of my two ancestors Thomas Wentworth, (Earl of Strafford) and Admiral Byng must be chuckling to see me following their footsteps to the scaffold and the Quarter deck.

Love to Susie

Yours ever

Julian

[ST: Lord Byng of Vimy]