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THE HAVEN FOWEY CORNWALL.
Jan 22nd. 1911
Dear Mr. Buchan
Mr. Watt tells me that he showed you a story of mine, 'The Keys of Mortallone', and that you were disposed to consider it, if it could go into a volume with a story of somewhat similar length. Will you kindly cast your eye over the enclosed & let me have it back at your leisure? It is a sort of synopsis of a
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Jekyll - & - Hydeish story I am just starting to write for a magazine (or rather, a series of stories). In length it would somewhat out-run 'The Keys of Mortallone': and it might (I think) too make a better story.
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It occurs to me that we ought to include David Livingstone in The Roll-Call of Honour [underlined]
Some time ago I wrote that Prester [underlined] John [underlined] was a rattling good story. I ought to have held my fire. It
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wont hold a candle to The Lemnian [underlined] which I have just been reading in 'The Atlantic Monthly' - not in 'Maga'. That [underlined] is a story which any man in my generation might be proud to sign. - One of those rare things, like Kipling's Brushwood Boy [underlined] that a man can always look back on with pride, telling himself, 'Well, after all's said & done, I wrote this [underlined].'
Yours very truly
Arthur Quiller-Couch.
