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11th. November
15, BUCKINGHAM TERRACE, EDINBURGH.
Dear Mr Buchan
You will wonder what I have got to say to you? Nothing original I am afraid, but when you rise from a book delighted with what you have read you do feel a longing to say thank you to some one, and I feel I shall but get rid of the unexpressed gratitude I feel if I send a warm thank you to you
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for yr little book upon Lord Ardwall. You have been a literary Raeburn & have brought him back so vividly to one's memory. He belonged to another generation in appearance, & also much in character & I should like to add "he was never the waur o' that"! but I find to contend with the young on this subject is a losing battle! They think they are the people & wisdom will die
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with them, & that certainly it did not exist before them! But I think you have a heart for every age, & certainly for our dear Kingdom of Galloway with its strangely lonely & mysterious hills where, as Ld Dundee said after reading yr weird & fascinating story "any thing might happen in those hills". That story & the interview between the grave Americans who came to choose a rightful King, & found a poor besotted man, have made a lasting impression on me - tho'
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the names find no abiding place in my wretched memory. I hear there is a gt. treat awaiting me in yr life of Montrose & tomorrow I hope to embark on his life, but how I shall miss not sharing it with my dear Andrew Lang. I am so glad to hear Norma Dalziel is to sing for you at Peebles. I love her singing it is so full of feeling. May I send my love to yr wife? She attracted me very much.
Yrs very sincerely
E.M. Sellar
All success to yr political adventure.
