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PRIVATE.

Bateman's Burwash Sussex

[telegrams] Burwash [station] Etchingham

12th May 1934.

Dear Buchan,

I am only this day back from Cannes and its neighbourhood after over three months miscalled holiday. And that is entirely that, so far as further holidays are concerned.

Once only have I seen Holyrood and it laid hold on me with strength. I wish to goodness I could come up but - you ought to see what I've found waiting for me to do here! As Horace says- Patriae quis exsul. There is no exultation in fleeing from one's country, Se quoque fugit, because your mail piles up behind you also.

Ever sincerely and respectfully,

Rudyard Kipling

John Buchan Esq., M.P., Elsfield Manor, Oxford.