The eldest son of the Prime Minister with an outstanding academic record at Oxford Raymond Asquith devoted his great talents to friendship preferring conversation & literature to the struggle for worldly success In this collection edited by his grandson there are touching & revealing letters to friends as diverse as Winston Churchill & Lady Diana Cooper love letters to his wife Katharine as well as frank & witty anecdotes about many of the major social figures & politicians of the day His letters from the Western Front before his death on the Somme in 1916 are as memorable as anything in the painfully emotive literature of the period