[Letter] 1924 January 2, London (U.K.) [to] [Christopher] Millard / Haldane MacFall.

Stamped address, Major Haldane MacFall, The White House, Perham Crescent, West Kensington, London W.14, Western 2294. Recipient identified and commented on by Mark Samuel Lasner.

Haldane states that he has only dined very rarely at Cafe Royal, but curiously enough every time with Embassy people and "rich American girls." He states that the food at the Savoy is "very very good if hideously costly" and commiserates that whether at the Ritz or at the Savoy "being poisoned is being poisoned, and I feel very sorry for your wretched expense," although he states later that the Cafe Royal might compensate Millard for it. He concludes by revealing that he does not believe the American will buy his collection, so they should wait to sell it because it will always command a solid value. Haldane would consider dispersing the volumes but only if he were to get double the money for them since "There will never again be a collection like it." Christopher Sclater Millard was a bookseller and bibliographer of Oscar Wilde.