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craft of the pen will hold, as I do, that
in your new and great appointment Letters
are honoured as well as Statecraft; and
we have our pride in that, and congratulate
the State as well as you.

The news delighted me, and I must
needs trouble you, when already you have
more letters than you can deal with, to
offer you and Mrs Buchan my felicitations
and my wife's. I realise you go far
beyond the orbit of the rustic bard, and
that we are not likely to meet beside
the magic waters of the young Tweed
again; but I should like you to
remember that I am remembering you,
and applauding as you go from strength
to strength - and that I trust your
pen will still find ways of serving
Scotland while you are serving the
Empire too: for then I shall still be
reading you.

Yours most truly

Gordon Bottomley.