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LAURIER HOUSE, OTTAWA.
December 11th 1935.
My dear Governor General:
I feel I have never adequately expressed to Your Excellency my appreciation of your kindness in presenting me with the personally inscribed author's copy of "Men and Deeds", which I received at the time of leaving for Georgia, and for the good wishes which accompanied it. I know
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I shall never be able to do so. At the same time, I should like you to know that your gift is one which I shall greatly treasure, and which will always have its association with Your Excellency's arrival in Canada, and the Washington Agreement. It is the most welcome of additions to a shelf of books by yourself each of which has its own cluster of memories and associations.
I have deeply regretted that circumstances, quite beyond
my control, compelled an immediate absence from Ottawa at the time of your arrival here, and many absences since; also, that the pressure of my public engagements and duties from day to day has been such as to deprive me of opportunities of conversation just at a moment when they might have been of a particularly welcome nature. I know that in this, as in other respects, I have been able to rely with confidence on Your Excellency's complete
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understanding. However, once this Dominion-provincial Conference is over, I hope my many shortcomings may not be quite so apparent, and that I shall be able to meet more effectively some of the many obligations of the position with which I have once again been honoured by my fellow countrymen.
I am sending with this note a copy of the address which I had the honour of presenting to Your Excellency on the evening of your arrival at Quebec. I hope that it, too, may have associations and hold memories which will be long cherished.
Yours very sincerely,
W.L. Mackenzie King.
His Excellency The Rt Hon'ble The Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., CH. Governor General of Canada.
