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Junior Common Room
Brasenose College
Oxford

Oct: 14: 95

[postscript:] I go to Haigh of Corpus for Demosthenes, to Fox of
BNC. for Homer, and to Clarke of
Queens for Theocritus.

My dear Mr Murray

I cannot tell you how grateful
I feel to you for troubling yourself to
write me so long a letter. I cordially
agree with you on every point. One of the
worst faults of the book, I think, is the
tendency to mere sentence-making. I think
this is due partly to the excessive admiration
which I have felt for some years for
Stevenson, partly to the way the book was
written. It was built up sentence by sentence