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OXFORD UNION SOCIETY
Brasenose Coll. Oxford
Jan: 29: '87
Dear Mr Murray
Many thanks for your kind letter. Let me congratulate you heartily on your second edition. I am glad that people appreciate you in spite of the impertinence of folk like Herbert Paul. I haven't seen Fox today, but I shouldn't think it likely that he had found any mistakes. However, if you like I'll ask
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him. If I might suggest anything, don't you think you might occasionally simplify the rigid transliteration of some of the first names? They look terribly unfamiliar to unscholarly people like myself.
The Senior Hulme is given on Greats work to fourth year men. The examiners said that my papers would have got on a First in Greats – which amused me very much.
I am just labouring revising
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my Seventeenth-century novel for book-publication. It is dreary work for I have entirely lost the sentiment I wrote it in.
Please tell Lady Mary that I apologise humbly for my rudeness in not calling till so late in the vacation.
With kind regards
Yours ever sincerely
John Buchan
