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DICTATED

7, AUDLEY SQUARE, W.l.
23rd September 1936.

My dear John

I owe you very sincere thanks for 2 letters, dated July 21st
& August 3rd. & firstly let me say how welcome is your good news that
you have had a reassuring report about your health. There was anxiety
when we earned you had been obliged to retire to hospital - then relief
that it was a measure of precaution: & finally we were happy that you
should have been so quickly released & returned to activity again. All
the same, you have got to be cautious. The huge distances you travel,
the long absences from home, the incessant vibration of railway life, &
the merciless déplacement of official tours, together with the sense of
being at everybody's disposal all the time - these things cannot fail to
involve an unbroken effort & strain, however much the circumstances and
surroundings may enthral. And it is not from the Canadian that you will
find sympathy & encouragement in a moderation, perhaps in a curtailment
of activities. I expect it will all be very interesting to you, and a
curious contrast with your hospitality for Roosevelt. We are beginning
to pay at tention to his campaign. 'l'he defeat in the State of Maine is
probably a wholesome reminder to his supporters that the fight is going
to be strenuous, and that his friends must accordingly work harder than
hitherto. Roosevelt is a wonderful man. I look upon him as one of
the greatest & most brilliant of charlatans, who in a second term of
office may become a really great statesman, with a world-wide outlook
and influence as well. We want him to win. No third term of office