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[A.J. Balfour]

Private.

WHITTINGEHAME HOUSE HADOINGTON SCOTLAND TELEGRAMS: Prestonkirk RAILWAY STAT I ON: East Linton, L.&N.E.R.

October 3rd, 1928.

My dear John Buchan,

I very greatly hope that in the Autumn I shall be able to attend a meeting at the Athenaeum. But I do not like to make promises, for in the matter of health the last twelve months have been very disappointing. My general condition has immensely improved, but I still suffer from a malady (the result, I suppose, of the original poisoning) with which my medical advisers have not been able so far satisfactorily to deal. It is an affection of the throat, which makes it hard for me to swallow and hard for me to speak! I cannot therefore

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make any arrangements of a public or semi-public character. It is a great nuisance, and makes life not only uncomfortable but complicated. But I live in hopes of a complete cure, and should then be at your service. But more than this I dare not say at the present moment .

Yours ever, Balfour

P. S. I am finding much consolation in your last work.