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be very difficult, with all the banquets.
Mrs Spooner called here last week. She was
motoring from London to Oxford. She is really
wonderful. Just as clear as ever, mentally.
but a little slower in her movements.
Professor Butler came down to lunch one day.
His family were all scattered, but were to
meet for a holiday in the Station.
John has been very busy with an index for his
new volume. but it is now finished. & he is
having a holiday from literature.
With kindest regards to you all
Yours very sincerely
R.E.M. Rait.
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Robert Rait was a contemporary and friend of JB's at Oxford. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rait
This letter is presumably from a son, since it is written four months after Robert Rait died. Professor Rennie's address must have been delivered at the funeral or memorial service, which JB could not attend, as he was in Canada in 1936. The fact that this is from a son is confirmed by him calling JB 'Lord Tweedsmuir', since his father would have called him 'John'.
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