Correspondents sending congratulations on CS's appointment [and also on the conclusion of his governorship] include: Guido Brunner; Lord Butler of Saffron Walden; Jacques Chaban-Delmas, President of the National Assembly, France; Claude Cheysson; 1st Lord Drumalbyn [earlier Niall Macpherson]; Hugh Dykes; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London; 2nd Lord Elton; Douglas Fairbanks jr; [John] Dudley Fishburn, Executive Editor of the Economist; Garret FitzGerald [Leader of the Opposition, Ireland]; Finn Olav Gundelach, Vice-President, Commission of the European Communities; Sir [Charles] Denis Hamilton [Editor-in-Chief, Times Newspapers Limited]; 5th Lord Harlech [earlier David Ormsby-Gore]; Stephen Hastings; Lord Holderness [earlier Richard Wood]; 2nd Lord Jellicoe; 4th Lord Kimberley [earlier Lord Wodehouse]; Patrick de Laszlo; 3rd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun]; Moura Lympany; Lord Mishcon; David Montagu [later 4th Lord Swaythling]; François-Xavier Ortoli, Vice-President of the EEC; Sir [Arthur] Michael Palliser, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Sir John Paul, Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man; Lord Rayne; Hans Hellmuth Ruete, German Ambassador to Britain; [Nathaniel] Jacob Rothschild; Sir John Russell; Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; 10th Lord Selkirk [earlier Lord George Douglas-Hamilton]; [Arthur] Nicholas Soames, Emma Soames, Jeremy Soames, Charlotte Hambro [earlier Charlotte Soames, later Lady Peel] and Rupert Soames; [Thomas] George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons [later 1st Lord Tonypandy]; Gaston Thorn, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; Lord Walston; [John] Steven Watson, Principal of the University of St Andrews; Woodrow Wyatt.