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Innisfail Newlands, Glasgow 8th Feb., 1915

Dear Sir

I write this for my father who is ill at present, but I stipulated that, if I were to do his correspondence, I was at any rate to get a "free hand." We enclose this booklet of verses, (I do not dignify them by the name of poetry) as a very slight return for the pleasure and interest we got from your works, grave or gay. I fear this return is somewhat of the nature of brass for gold.

My father wishes to thank you very much for the article which appeared in "Public Opinion," and to which the Editor of that most interesting paper called his attention. The other night he kept awake till 3 o'clock (truly "some wee, short hour ayont the twal") reading the first part of your "History of the War." He paid for it the next day, but hopes to do it again, as soon as he procures the second number.

I hope you will excuse my saying that we all agreed with your critisism of my father's story. "The Grey Hill of Dream." He is going to re-model it leaving the atmosphere, and

weaving in a better plot.

I think of all your short stories I liked best "The Rhyme of True Thomas" and after that "Ashtaroth," but I appreciated greatly the ending of "The Earlier Affection," "Come back an' I'll learn ye," especially the word I had to leave out. That is the way we all feel just now about the Germans.

I hope you will excuse two unfortunates, who would rather be fighting than writing, (that rhyme is not poetry) troubling you at a time when I am sure you must be extremely busy.

Thanking you once again

for all the pleasure and interest we have got from your works.

I am,

Yours very faithfully,

Kathleen Mary Carroll

P.S. The "History of the War" is the most wonderful story of all, isn't it?

John Buchan, Esq.