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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