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La Capponcina Settignano Firenze

May 25th 1935

Dear Lord Buchan:

I wonder if this is correct? The news of the new honour conferred upon you has just reached me. I wanted to write to you on your nomination as Governor General - and feared to be indiscreet - But I can hardly refrain from doing it now.

I only want to tell you how delighted I was for both though I fear, and many of your admirers certainly will, that your new high responsibilities will interfere with your activity of writer and your literary pursuits. I can only hope that it will all be for your personal satisfaction and for the development of your

higher aspirations.

I have always felt that meeting you and learning to appreciate you was one of the few real advantages of my appointment to London in the last year of the war - and regretted that I had so few occasions to return to England since. Now you are further away from me than ever. But one never knows. I still hope that some day I may see you in all your glory - and pay you my respects.

This, however, is not meant to be flippant, far from it. - Only to offer you my sincere congratulations and all warmest good wishes.

Yours very sincerely,

Filippo De Filippi