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Private and confidential.

15th July, 1936

The Rt Honble W. Mackenzie King, M.P.,
Laurier House,
Ottawa.

It was a great pleasure to see you on Saturday and very
kind of you to come and cheer me up. I am glad to say that after
the most elaborate examination the doctors are now quite clear as
to what is wrong with my digestion, and it is nothing serious. I am
already quite comfortable, and they have given me a regime - a not very
severe one - which I must stick to for the rest of my life. What a
magnificent clinic they have at Montreal! There is nothing like it ,
that I know of, in Britain.

I send you a rough draft of what I propose to say when the
President arrives. It is, I think, the right length. Will you read
it most carefully and strike out any word or sentence which you
think dubious. It is a case where one most weigh every word.

Yours ever,