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28th August 1921.
35,LAURISTON PLACE, EDINBURGH.
Dear Mr Buchan
I have just reached the last page of your "Path of the King", & want to thank you for it, thank you from my heart. The whole conception of it is so fine, & so much needs to be put into words just now, when the "last of the Kings"
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seems to have died long ago, & the youth of our time are too cynical & world- weary to recognize Kingliness when they see it, or to allow that there can be any today.
Your book is for old folk like me, but it is more important that growing boys & girls should read it & let its meaning sink into
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their hearts & minds; so I am posting it off to a family of bairns big & little to whom I was speaking of it yesyerday, when I had read only half of it.
I hope too that the second visit of Drinkwater's splendid play will turn more folk to read your book. This age so badly needs to go in more for hero-worship,
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don't you think? & they could hardly find a finer object than Abraham Lincoln.
I hope you are all very well, & I wish your "path" led you to Edinburgh oftener. I should love to get to know your bairnies, & to see Susie & you oftener. I grow busier than ever, 'my bairns' multiply very fast, & spread them
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selves all over the Kingdom, & sometimes far out of it - and now I have a fresh interest in being Prof. Hannay's (Scottish History) Assistant. Lately I took your "Byways" as a text for several lectures to a class, & we all enjoyed it amazingly.
Best wishes always to your pen, & to all of you from
Your old friend
Ethelwyn B. Lemon
[ST: Teacher & Greek scholar]
