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UNIVERSITY CLUB EDINBURGH

May 24 1916.

Dear Mr Buchan,

Your kind note leads to my rejoinder that you are really disparaging the "gift that is in you" (not [underlined] from any Presbytery's hands), to assuage the painful tedium of the modern man - including theological professors.

I have passed on yr

shockers to Mrs. Graham Kerr, & expect they will go round our quiet quadrangle.

I think you have a sense of the "profit of life" which R.L.S. spoke of so often. And you know the physiognomy of streets and lanes as by instinct. I shall not expect any answer, but humbly

beg like Oliver Twist for more.

Yours truly,

H.M.B. Reid