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13 Glebe Road
Bedford

8/3/07

To John Buchan Esq.r,
author of "A Lodge in the Wilderness"

Dear Sir,

May I venture, respectfully, to
express my gratitude to you for the very great
pleasure I had in reading your latest book,
and to offer my congratulations at the advent
of the second edition? I would have ventured
to do so when I read your book some time
ago, but for the fact that you withheld your
name. To me, however, the book was not anon-
ymous, because I had read your volume on
South Africa - where the "Lodge" is clearly
prefigured - just as I have read all your