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Private and confidential

4th August, 1936.

The Rt Honble W Mackenzie King, M.P.,
Kingsmere, P.Q.

My warmest thanks for your letter of the 2nd August. I am
delighted to know that you feel as I do about last Friday: that it
was in every way a real success. Providence was very kind to us, for
there was nothing to mar a day of rather complicated ceremonial. I
feel that the whole thing must work for good, both in America and in
Europe. I had a cable from Reith of the B.B.C. saying that the broadcast
had come through perfectly, and that England had been deeply impressed.

I need not tell you what a joy it was to have you with me
on Friday. Indeed, your companionship in my task here is the chief
of the many blessings I have to be grateful for. I only wish you
were coming with me to the West; but I hope in the future we shall
make many expeditions together. I will give all proper messages to
your friends there.

My tiresome gastritis is, I think, slowly mending, and I
look for much from change of scene and atmoshere on my Western trip.
I am determined to get completely rid of this malaise, which has been
troubling me really since the New Year. My immediate plans do not
involve very much fatigue, and I hope by the time I get to Prince Al-