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14, THORNSETT ROAD, ANERLEY, S.E.20.

18th December, 1923.

My dear Buchan,

It's a joy to hear that you like the Anthology. I have been blushing, alas, over a few misprints, the wildest blunder being the attribution of the "Evening Primrose" by John Clare to Emily Brontë. But this, I think , is a single case. If you should happen to notice anything of the kind, and you could spare the time, might I have the reference on a card?

The four verses of "Tam of the Lin" came from Chambers' s "Select Writings" - a collection I should like to have stolen from far more freely. "The King's young dochter" is from the F. J. Child edition of Ballads - just the first two stanzas (page 94) of "The King's Dochter Lady Jean". As for the ballads there is no exhausing them. They seem to be a kind of pre-natal language; and I can only boast of a few drops of lowland blood .

Yours ever Walter LeMere