Thanks for your letter of the 21st instant and for sending me the
little book, which I wish I could have kept. Would it be possible
to communicate with the author of the book you sent me in which
the prayer of the Primate of Ireland appeared under my name? I
should like to have this corrected, as it is quite wrong that I
should have the credit of being the author of such a beautiful
prayer when I was only the indirect means of it being written.
(Thus far Lord Roberts’ letter was typed. Then in his own strong,
clear, firm hand the letter concluded as follows): This letter
was dictated before I met you yesterday. I only send it as a
reminder.
I may just add in conclusion that “the little book” which he twice,
almost wistfully, said he wished he could have kept (if I remember
rightly it told, among other things, of his son’s death in South
Africa) was by the courtesy of the friend from whom I had borrowed
it, reforwarded to Lord Roberts, and was by him gratefully and gladly
acknowledged.