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[H. Last]

Strathmore Harlow . Essex

1. iv. 35

Dear Colonel Buchan,

First a line to thank you for the safe return of my scribblings about Augustus. And secondly, a hope that you will not treat any notes you may have made as if they were taken from something which I regard as ready for publication. I do not read my lectures, and what you have seen was only written, in haste and without correction, against the possibility that I might have 'flu on the day when the lecture was to be given and that it might have to be delivered by a substitute. But, though there are phrases which I should change for press, the arguments may stand.

It is good news indeed that your reponsibilities in Canada may still leave some leisure for the book to which I look forward

with more than usual eagerness. Please be sure that if ever I can save you time by sending information you have only to tell me and it shall come.

For the rest, though I scarcely know you well enough to offer even the humblest personal congratulations in the great task which you have been given, perhaps you will forgive me for saying that there are some to whom historians as Governors seem even more suitable than philosophers as Kings.

Yours very sincerely

Hugh Last