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PARLIAMENT PIECE,
RAMSBURY,
WILTSHIRE.

Ap. 4. 21

My dear Mr Buchan

I hope you'll forgive me
for writing to say how much I have enjoyed
your last book. we've only just met, but
we have many common friends - for instance
my brother in law John Bailey.

I don't know that I should have written
(for authors to whom I write always seem to
resent it!) but for that stupid review in
the Times Lit. Sup. It annoyed me to think
that any presumably intelligent man shouldn't
see what a fearfuly big job you had under-