I am afraid I cannot claim the honour of writing the beautiful
prayer you found in the _Cloud of Witnesses_--at least I think
that is the name of the book you mentioned--but I am away from
home and have not got your letter by me.
I thought it might have been the prayer General Colley wrote
before “Majuba,” but it is not.
I should like to find out where the author of the book got the
prayer, and why he gave me as the writer of it.
Yours very truly,
ROBERTS.
My reply was to send Lord Roberts the book to see for himself. He
returned it, carefully packed and addressed in his own handwriting,
with the letter which I here transcribe:
ALMOND’S HOTEL, CLIFFORD STREET,
LONDON, W., 1.2.14.