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April 18 1935
My dear Mrs Buchan
I've been away, or I would have written sooner.
I've just been expressing (with mixed feelings) what I knew to be the thoughts of the Oxfordshire Institutes in the next supplement. They certainly are mine.
But public paragraphs are
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80 unsatisfactory.
You've made yourself such a personal friend to every W-1 in the county - and you and the family are taking from us something we haven't too much of in this movement & for which we've all been, rather inarticulately grateful.
I don't know what your Institute can be feeling. Couldn't you leave Alice or Bill at the house, so that the Buchan spirit may still preside over Elsfield? What a comfort to be taking Alister
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and what a thrill for him!
Of course we know noone could hesitate ever a call such as that. We are all proud of you as an Oxfordshire family. We congratualte you warmly. We shall miss you horribly.
Yours most sincerely Margie Sidgwick
P.S. My sister joins with me in this
