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TRG has been sent to bed by the doctor due to high blood pressure but is now improving; thanking DC for slips about professor Macnaughton and for other material; a request to be remembered.

Chronology; The Challenge book; TRG recommends Doughty's book on the Arabs; an author's vanity perhaps and a reprint of the Challenge book; others may follow; a great demand for books with musings as to why; a yearning to return to Canada and all that means; the quality of coffee; family news: more mumps and TRG's lumbago; war time musings and searching for an end; a forecast of 15 more years of life and consideration of whether that would be desirable; the death of contemporaries, most old friends are now in Canada; a request to read it to Dil.

Discusses academic work in Canada and difficulties associated with the ill health of 'Mary'. Hopes to meet DC but Oberlin College, Ohio would like a lecture series.

Discusses family matters, mentioning a response to his correspondent's encounter with messrs Fry and MacNaughton.

Has learnt that the ship will take at least an extra day to get to Montreal so must change his plans. Asks for help in finding accommodation.

Is trying to find work for Richard (possibly his son) in a scientific field, possibly in the USA. Mentions his [son's] experience and qualifications and the kind of work he might be most suited for.

Congratulations on Barbara's scholarship; church matters; commiserations on the death of Edith; family news.

Is sending, under separate cover, a printed copy of lectures he gave on Horace. He has been extensively involved in meetings of the Baptist Union.

TRG has sent a book and details costs and possible duties payable and whether a profit could be made by selling the book on.

Comments on DC's corrections of his article in The Spectator on Canadian matters. Mentions various items of family news including a Latin competition at The Leys [School]. He is pleased that work is now coming to DC';s architectural practice. Enclosed is a quotation from James Boswell.