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FISHER'S GATE, WITHYHAM, SUSSEX.
Sept 2 / 20
Dear Mr Buchan
It is so long since I had the pleasure of seeing you, & I am wondering if you are spending a well earned holiday in Scotland. How I wish that your visit to Minto cd. have been repeated, but my son is in Canada, & I am
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with my oldest daughter who shortly leaves to settle in East Africa! I have recently had such a disappointment, Dunlop Smith has developed some lung trouble, the doctors insist on complete rest & he most regretfully has to give up writing the Indian Chapter of Minto's
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Biography. He however makes a suggestion, w[hich] is that he shd. give his notes & papers to Sir Verney Lovett who has I believe been asked to assist in bringing out a book on India by your firm. Dunlop has the highest opinion of him & wd. I hope be able to supply any information required to assist him. I do not know Sir Verney, & I wd. not venture
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to make any proposal to him without consulting you. The days go by, & I have not yet completed my work in sorting & arranging his papers, interruptions have been ceaseless. I want to see the book in print before I die - What about renumeration, & how cd. I suggest it? I trust this winter really to have time & work seriously, but I feel more & more incapable of good work, from a literary point of view but I can & will give the material
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I know you will not have forgotten your promise as to the first chapter on the Clan & the Borders, & with your help & Sir Verney's I feel I must not despair of success. I wonder what you think of Margot. I am so thankful to be a humble individual with no glaring peculiarity to record. Punch is very amusing & Reed's caricatures excellent. I wonder
