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BRYNGWYNT, BANGOR, NORTH WALES

Jan 22. 1914

Dear Mr Buchan

I have been intending for a good many weeks to write and thank you for your excellent Life of Montrose, and to tell you how much I enjoyed your most brilliant and interesting accounts of the battles, and how warmly I appreciate in the last chapter the summing up of Montrose's character. I have seen two very good reviews

of the book in the Times Literary Supplement, and in the Spectator and I am sure you have had many others which I should much like to see. There are some points, taken from Dr Gardiner's earlier volumes, with which I cannot agree, and I wonder whether you ever happened to see in Blackwood 1892, an article which I wrote entitled "Montrose and Dr Gardiner", in which I gave my reasons for differing from the great Historian's

earlier views of some of Montrose's actions. I could lend you the old copy which I still have of that number of Blackwood if you would care to see it.

Few people can have read with greater appreciation than myself (and one of my daughters, who also writes) the verses which you have placed at the beginning of your book. They appeal very specially to me, for my only brother, who died many years ago, and I, also played at being Montrose and other royalists, when I, the elder by

three years, was about 13, but I was always Montrose. I think your verses charming.

Yours very sincerely

Jennet Pryce

I ought to tell you that I am a very old woman now.