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19 DRAYCOTT AVENUE
CHELSEA S.W.3.

Kensington 7396.

April 9th. 1935.

My dear Buchan,

Many congratulations on your appointment. I am
glad it is a brother Scot. As a matter of fact, they
generally have Scotsman for Governor-Generals in Canada.
My great grandfather, Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond,
was one; my grandfather, Sir Peregrine Maitland, whose
wife was a daughter of Richmond's , was Governor of
Upper Canada for 10 years and of Nova Scotia for 8
years, and acting Governor-General when his father-in-law
died of Hydrophobia & was buried in Quebec Cathedral.
My mother was born by the side of the falls of Niagara.
In later years Julian Byng (not a Scotsman) was there,
a brother-in-law of my sister, the late Emily, Lady
Strafford. I love Canada and have been there several
times, and I am sure you will be a great success.

One thing I would like to ask you to consider is
making a slight alteration in your book " The King's
Grace" with regard to the Dardanelles. I enclose a
letter of mine which was published in the "Times" last
October, three days before the Trafalgar dinner of
The Navy Club, at which I was surrounded by Naval Officers
saying 'Thank God, you've told the truth about the
Dardanelles, and defended Jack de Robeck's conduct." I
also received a letter from Lady de Robeck's in which she
said she could not understand Keyes writing all that
stuff against her husband, when he knew that she had got
all de Robecks papers on the subject, which entirely
explained his action and showed it to be right.

Next, Admiral Sir Heathcoat Grant, one of de
Robeck's Senior Captains, wrote to me and told me how
de Robeck signalled for him after the bombardment and
the first attempt on the Straits. I asked him to write
to The Naval and Military Record, which he did, and I
enclose a copy.

Two days after my letter appeared I met Admiral