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Inchdowrie Clova Kirriemuir
FLICHITY, INVERNESS
3 Sept. 1926.
My dear John
The holiday season gives occasional leisure for the perusal of light literature in the intervals of the more serious pursuit of the grouse. Such occasional leisure I have devoted, to my great entertainment and profit,
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to the Ὀρχῆστρα, and I do offer you all my compliments and congratulations on a really admirable yarn which combines a pleasant flavour of classical learning with the delights of a most excellent thriller.
Only I do think that the dénoument ought to have been a dénuement - that
is to say that the κούρος and the κορή ought to have made their last great appearance with no clothes on at all. Perhaps however that would have been rather too classical?
All my compliments.
I hope you have had a good holiday. We have had 3 weeks in Forfarshire - about 700 brace of grouse -
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We are in Invernessshire at the moment, and go back to Inchdowrie next week. After that our faces turn southwards via the abodes of F.S.O. and Geoffrey Dawson. Back in London in last week in Sept. when I hope there may be a chance of seeing you.
With love to Susie and all the family from us both
Yours ever
Dougal O. Malcolm.
