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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