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Laurier House, Ottawa.
17 - XII - 1935.
My dear Governor General:
By a stroke of rare good fortune The Lords of Freedom carrying with it your Excellency's good wishes for Christmas has come in with the mail received on this, my 61st birthday anniversary. May I thank you therefore for a double pleasure, as well as for a gift which will have its association with my birthday anniversary
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as well as Your Excellency's first Christmas in Canada.
I am delighted to have as a gift from you this volume of Mr Baldwin's more recent addresses. I shall always gratefully remember your kindness in bringing to me the message you did from Baldwin. It makes me very proud to feel that I am privileged to share in the friendship you and he enjoy. Your gift seems to place a seal upon this privilege.
I have just reread the address delivered by Mr Baldwin when he was in
Ottawa in the summer of 1932. It vividly recalls the talks we had together at Kingsmere in his visit of that year, and in 1927 when he came out with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. There is much in all of the addresses which will bring with them a sense of Baldwin's nearness, which it is both strengthening and inspiring to have.
With my thanks for your kind gift and its good wishes, may I say how much I hope that this - Your Excellencies first Christmas in Canada - may be a very
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happy one for you both, and for all that be of your household. I am glad that winter is lending the mantle of snow to the beauty of the out-of-doors at this joyous season.
Yours very sincerely,
W.L. Mackenzie King.
His Excellency The Rt Honble Lord Tweedsmuir G.C.M.G. etc etc Government House.
