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or six came into my room about midnight very
drunk and wanted whisky. They finally found
some methylated spirits for the lamp. I waited
anxiously on developments; but luckily they
found out their mistake before they tried to
drink it.
Fisher Unwin came to see me here on
Saturday night about my little book of short stories.
He's very angry at Heinemann for stealing a
march on him with that series of literature histories.
It seems he had been contemplating the same thing for
long.
The subjects for the Stanhope & Newdigate are
compulsory – Sully and Theodoric the Goth
in Italy – both rather nice.
Again let me thank you for your kind letter.
I needn't say that I value your criticism more
than anybody else's that I know.
Yours very sincerely
John Buchan
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Can you shed any light on the prize subjects? He seems in fact to have written on Raleigh and Gibraltar.
I don't think that, in the end, that he went in for the Stanhope and Newdigate in his first year. He got too busy with his Classics studies as well as his work as a publisher's reader.
Sully was a 17th century French statesman, I believe. The letter is addressed to Professor Gilbert Murray, his old Greek professor from Glasgow University, with whom he kept in touch all his life, and who delivered a eulogy at the memorial service held at Elsfield in 1940.
Thank you.
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