50, CORNWALL GARDENS, S.W.7.
My dear Lucas,
In George O'Brien an applicant for the Chairmanship Fife and I would now put in writing what I today said to you about him. I have been associated with him intimately, officially and socially, for 30 years and few people know him so well - or better.
I think O'Brien has the quickest and soundest judgment of any man without exception whom I have ever known closely & he has