2110-7-2-16

[Lang]

Lambeth Palace. S. E.

28th March 1935.

My dear Buchan,

I am beginning to wonder where you will end your romantic career. I suppose it was not enough for you to represent the King at the General Assembly, but that you must needs represent him on a wider scale in Canada. The Viceroyalty of India or possibly a Dictatorship of the British Empire may be in your view. Anyhow I am greatly interested in this new summons to your activities and I congratulate you most heartily on this sign of the confidence with which the leaders of our country regard you. I daresay you will have many regrets at giving up your place in the House of Commons, but there is everything in Canada which may both appeal to your imagination and call at the present time for all your gifts of knowledge and judgment. Plainly the Dominion is going through a very critical time. I hope you may have wisdom given to you to guide it safely. I know that, to use language familiar to us both, you will lift up your eyes unto the hills from whence cometh help and I pray that blessing from the hills may be given to you.

One thing I must ask and that is that you will not allow your new duties, when you begin them, to interfere with your annual romance. I cannot imagine a holiday for myself

without it. You and Mrs Buchan must come here before you go .

Yours very sincerely,

Cosmo Cantuar: