Dear J A
I have read with some care this document (except ↑part of↓ the appendices). I do believe you would do well to sign it. I am taking the liberty of signing the second slip for you to send also if you care to do so. I knew something of all this when I was in Geneva. I [took] it up with La Fontaine [page 2] but if I remember rightly, he with his Francophile sympathies, did not approve then of any efforts on behalf of [illegible] people. But it seems to me that it is so in the interests of [reconciliation] that there be clemency now and what these men did was entirely intelligible it seems to me and in an absolutely different class from [illegible]. (see this part of the second page of the Appendices that I have marked in the margin).
Yours ever E G B
P.S. I fear I signed [illegible] left you the [illegible] to sign (if you do) [written up the right margin] Please excuse me!
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