"I am engaged in research on the thought of Bishop Charles Gore, and should be terribly grateful to you if you would be kind enough to give me some information about the public debate between Bishop Gore and yourself which took place in the Great Hall, University College, London, in 1928. ... I should be most happy to know a few particulars, and, if you do not mind disclosing them, I should like to have your personal impressions of your meeting with Gore."