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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.