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[in margin:] P.S. You see I have altered "the ones" into "those". I caught Burke's eye in the next line, so I had to "chastise my faulty phraseology". You remember old Dr Parr's story about: he said he went one day to the H of C where the younger Pitt was speaking - very ungrammatically - "but the rogue "caught my eye "and chastised "his faulty "phraseology"
THE ATHENÆUM, PALL MALL, S.W.1.
Oct 6. 1926.
Dear John
Thank you very much for the book of addresses, which I have read with the greatest pleasure. The ones Those on Burke, and on the Am. Civil War are excellent. Those are both matters you have studied and thought on to good purpose.
The one upon Scott is an old favourite of mine; The last two pages (37-38) and a half I cannot read
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dry-eyed. They are the best thing about Scott that has been written, most of it indeed by himself, but your remarks there are supremely true and apt. Jeanie Deans' burst of eloquence is the finest thing in British prose, perhaps, unless it that is in the "ride your way[s], Ellangowan" that Verrall analyzed.
Yrs ever
GMT
P.S. Don't forget to act upon your promise anent speaking to Baldwin about our friend I.C.B., - the National Trust, English Association and literature in general.
