Correspondents commenting on the biography or thanking Duff Cooper for copies, include: Cyril Alington; 1st Lord Allenby; 1st Lord Askwith; Katharine, Lady Oxford and Asquith; Stanley Baldwin; Maurice Baring (2); Lord Osborne Beauclerk [later 12th Duke of St Albans]; Hilaire Belloc; General Sir [James] Noel Birch (2); Brigadier-General Arthur Blair; Brigadier-General William Braithwaite; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir] (2); Lord Richard Cavendish; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; Edmund Compton; Sir Herbert Creedy (2); 2nd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; Major-General Sir John Davidson; 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; Major-General Hugo De Pree (2); Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds, Director of the Historical Section (Military Branch) of the Committee of Imperial Defence (3), enclosing a memorandum on varying accounts of the Battle of Verdun; Lieutenant-General Bertie Fisher (4); General Sir Hubert Gough, also giving his views on foreign policy; 2nd Lord Haig; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell; Harcourt Johnstone ("Crinks"); Alexander Hardinge, Assistant Private Secretary to King George V; 6th Lord Harewood [earlier Lord Lascelles]; Rupert Hart-Davis (5); Rudyard Kipling; General Sir Herbert Lawrence (2); Neville Lytton; Lord Macduff [later 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn] (2); Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (2); Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice; Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith; Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Rees-Mogg; J Alfred Spender; Oliver Stanley; Sir Arthur Stanley; George Trevelyan (3); George Turner; 1st Lord Wigram, Private Secretary to King George V; [David] Euan Wallace.