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[M. Baring]

Telephone
Regent 1055

White's
St. James's Street, S.W.1

3. July. 1931.

My dear John,

I have just read your all too
magnificent article about my book
& I saw too a letter in this
week's Spectator about the 2
Ruthvens.

I think I describe the elder
Ruthven's death at Newcastle
& I say somewhere else that
the Lochleven Ruthven was the
son of no 1.

but (if I remember rightly)
I believe there is authority
for saying both Ruthvens
(father & son) were present
when Rizzio was killed -