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4.

I should give a good deal not to have to go
abroad for the next two months. I have, at last, overtaken
arrears of correspondence and other work , but I can see
wherein it will all begin anew once I am away for a fort-
night or longer.

We are having the Lord Mayor of London as the
guest of the Government on Wednesday of next week. We shall
give him a welcome on Parliament Hill in the forenoon and a
drive about the City with luncheon at the Country Club. He
is here only during the morning and afternoon.

I hope Lady Tweedsmuir is well and has enjoyed
the Western trip. Please give my kindest remembrances to
her and to all of your party.

[ST: handwritten addendum to this letter - as follows]

Later Aug, 26.

May I renew before signing the good
wishes for your 61st year, which I expressed
in a wire I sent on behalf of my colleagues
and myself last night. I do hope this year
will bring you renewed health and great
happiness to all your work.

Yours very sincerely
Rex.

P.S. I see echoes of Quebec in the N.Y. Times pronouncement
on Roosevelt's behalf. That
visit will do this present world much
more good than any meeting of the Assembly
of the League of Nations.