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Dear Mr Deschamps
I have received your letter of the 18th here in the North, in which however oddly enough there is no allusion at all to the principal subject of my long letter namely my warm desire that Mr Davis might be allowed to take up Mr Ouless' work as a second & not as a third juror, thus not curtailing my number of votes. However since then I learn from your telegrams that my request was declined & that I have now to act with 5 jurors & a supplicant. The matter is therefore now a thing of the past - only I don't gather from your letter whether you tried to obtain the result that I desired.
As regards foreign opinion on our section you say that I have succeeded in making you doubt it; there is here evidently some misunderstanding. I said absolutely nothing except that you had written to me that it was successful only with our countrymen. That was what you wrote & I answered that I gathered from that that you had altered your mind since the time when you spoke to me of its success with foreigners. I am of course only too pleased to think that it is admired by them. I am sorry to hear of all these disagreements amongst our French friends.
In haste
Yours faithfully
Fred Leighton
Certainly Msieur L.Gonse is pleased with our section. |