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Telegrams & Station: Penrhyndeudraeth.

Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Penrhyndeudraeth. N. Wales

13 August 1926 Friday

My dear Buchan

I have just finished reading your book which my wife insisted on my taking as my holiday novel. She was quite right. I enjoyed it immensely. It is a wonderful piece of puzzle narration & yet has none of the clichés of the mystery novel Category. I was amazed by the learning you display as to the Greek Mysteries & their origins. You were quite right to keep

your detail for them & to "cut the cackle" in regard to London & the Shires. When the machine-made, mass-production novelist of the sealed pattern stamp touches a piece of archelogy he's generally unbearably empty & dull. Not so you, when you touch "the old religion". By the way those Intervals are eternally interesting: give us some more. I liked greatly your list of places where Dancing Floors are to be found. You might have added "& the Counties of Carnarvon & Merioneth". I know of four or five such green platforms here. Indeed you have given my mountain walks a new zest. I now spot them "where'er I walk". I saw one yesterday close to an old Roman Road! Love to you & Susie from both of us.

Yours

J. St Loe Strachey