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MP Shiel

L'ABRI, NEW Rd.,Worthing Rd., . HORSHAM, SUSSEX.

July 16, '35

Dear Mr. John Buchan

I was, you may be sure, delighted to see that you supported an application made by a fond young poet, John Gawsworth, to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to grant me a civil-list pension. This through your influence has been done - not much money, but that is always pretty when the "children of this world" drop a curtsey to our spiritual lot. You

will guess, I think, whether I feel grateful to you.

Your sincere M.P. Shiel

I was instructed that the fact of the grant was a secret, until officially published, as has just been done: hence the tardiness of this expression of my thanks.