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Sandringham, Norfolk - Lord Wigram has asked him to say Princess Elizabeth is very pleased to accept the French book she sent her; his Majesty's engagements will not permit him to see Sir James in the near future, and is unable to accept the invitation to Sir James' birthday party on January 26th.

Records dates and visitors' name; addresses are also intermittently recorded. Royal signatures have a page to themselves, with the date written calligraphically at the top: a visit from Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on 20 Oct. 1955; from Princess Margaret on 6 Nov. 1958; from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 8 Jun. 1960 for the opening of Angel Court; from King Paul and Queen Frederica on 9 Mar. 1961, for a visit to the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory; from Elizabeth II on 28 May 1962 for the opening of Addenbrooke's Hospital. A black and white photograph of the Queen with Lord Adrian and the Lord Lieutenant in the street is inserted in the book.

8 letters and 2 fragments of letters, from:

• Ramsay Macdonald, 6 Mar. 1914
• James Balfour, 8 Jan. 1920
• Lord Haldane, 4 May 1924
• E. Rutherford, 20 June 1925, accepting congratulations for his Order of Merit
• Albert, the future George VI, 26 Apr. 1926, accepting congratulations on the birth of his daughter Elizabeth
• Lord Cecil, 9 Sept. 1927
• Stanley Baldwin, 30 May 1930
• Lord Halifax, 8 Jan. 1941, will take a letter to Butler's brother, will be happy to see one of the family 'after working with Rab so long'
• two fragments signed by Stanley Baldwin and Lord Grey