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THE CONFESSOR'S GATE ISLIP, OXFORDSHIRE.

March 29/35

Dear Colonel Buchan

'Eheu, miserande puer' is excellent - very many thanks.

I want to add my congratulations to those of the many and I want to congratulate Canada (knowing now that at least one of our Colonies will be secure) and I want to congratulate the king on his shrewdness in choosing so excellent a Governor. - But most I want to say how genuinely sorry I am that

you and Mrs Buchan are going away. It is a grim and unhallowed prospect - for Oxfordshire without Elsfield will be an egg without its yolk - 'Eheu, miserande Oxon.' We shall all miss you both very very much - and Islip, at any rate, is going into mourning until you return.

Yours very sincerely

Hugh Chesterman.

I should like to add this quatrain to some verses of mine on 'Television' in last week's 'Punch'

And shall I see (reflected from afar)

A kindly Potentate at Ottawa

Still finding time to send to atrabilious

And vexed Islippians lines from P. Vergilius?