December 5th, 1916.
My dear Lloyd George,
It may make a difference to you (in reply to your last letter) if I tell you at once that I have tendered my resignation to the King. In any case, I should deprecate in the public interest the publication in its present form at this moment of your letter to me of this morning.
Of course, I have neither the power nor the wish to prevent your stating in some other form the causes which led you to take the step which you have taken.
Yours very sincerely,
(Sd.) H. H. Asquith.