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[C.S. Orwin]
[Refers to "The English Land" by
John Buchan]

II, BRADMORE ROAD,
OXFORD.
TELEPHONE 212.

10 : March : 23

Dear Buchan, (if I may adopt this informal
mode of address)

I have now read your article, and find
nothing in it with which I do not agree most
fully. I wish I could have written it myself.

To mention a detail or two, are you sure
that 20 per cent of the land is now in the
hands of occupying owners? I cannot find the
acreage figures, but as regards persons I think
the number is 10 per cent. But you may be quite
right as to area. Then, on p.9., I rather think
it would help the uninstructed reader if you
could develop the statement as to the national
importance of agriculture a little more. The
whole case for the industry depends upon this,