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[TREVELYAN] - daughter

Feb 20th 1921

PEN ROSE, BERKHAMSTED.

Dear Colonel Buchan

Thank you ever so much for the jolly book you sent me - how ever did you know it was my birthday? The inscription inside made us all laugh - that incident has become a family joke. Daddy says he is looking forward immensely to reading the book, and so am I, and so are we all. I love stories that have a sort of imagine-thread running through ; Daddy says this one has. Especially I shall like it if it has anything about the Elizabethans, for I just revel in the Elizabethans. I have read your "Sir Walter Raleigh", and loved it. I wanted to get it, but it is out of print.

I had a lovely birthday. All my best friends came to share it with me. Mummy gave

me £2, and Grandpapa gave me another, so I am nice and rich. I had lots of books, and the new bookcase I had at Christmas is getting quite full. Do you know Standish O'Grady's books about Cuculain? They are called "The Coming of Cuculain," "In the Gates of the North," and "The Triumph and Passing of Cuculain." I love them; they read like Homer or the Bible. Daddy gave me them on my birthday.

With many thanks,

Yours with love,

"The Haunted Damosel"