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at CALTHORPE FIELDS,
FREDERICK ROAD,
EDGEBASTON
Birmingham

Oct 17/19

Dear Buchan

I daresay you will not remember but I
met you about 16 or 17 years ago at Sligachan,
Skye one autumn. Was up there with Jas Craig
& Hamish Craig of Glasgow. Since then I have been
in New Zealand & am just on the point of
returning (took my discharge in this country). However
the object of this letter was not to explain myself
but to say what a dam' fine book I thought
'Mr Standfast" was. Have just finished it. You
get right home about carnage & fortitude. I've never
before been in such a disgusting cold-sweat funk as
I experienced in this war. It finds out the
yellow streaks all right or what you call soft spots.
It was rotten. The spirit may be there but the flesh
lacks control & Wake in your book is an