Correspondents commenting on Duff Cooper’s published speech on Horace, given at the annual banquet of the Horatian Society, "The toast of the immortal memory of Quintus Horatius Flaccus", Nov 1937, or thanking him for copies include: Alan Lascelles [Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI]; Queen Elizabeth; Stanley Baldwin; [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Sir John Simon; Oliver Stanley; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood]; Malcolm MacDonald; Sir Terence O’Connor; Hilaire Belloc; Sir Edward Marsh; H G Wells; 2nd Lord Mersey [earlier Charles Bigham] (2); Harold Nicolson; Edward Lucas; Maurice Baring; Alfred Mason; Rupert Hart-Davis; Samuel Courtauld (2); Sir Sidney Herbert; "Crinks" [Harcourt Johnstone]; 3rd Lord Dudley [earlier Lord Ednam]; Michael Hornby; 3rd Lord Rothschild; John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to Cooper]; Edmund Compton; Sir Herbert Creedy; [George] David Roseway [former Private Secretary to Cooper]; Sir Ronald Storrs; [Lancelot] Patrick Wilkinson [Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge].

Also includes a print of Sir Ronald Storrs’s address to the Horatian Society, 1953.