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Dene View
Heaton Road
Newcastle
- on Tyne

Feb.y 11 1923

Dear Sir,

"Huntingtower" has given us great pleasure in this
house, and if it will be of use to you to have this list of
a few small printer's errors in it I shall be very glad.

Is it correct to use an oratio obliqua form in quotation
marks as you have done eleven lines from the foot of page 16?
I should either omit the "_" and spell There with a small t
or write it: Then he laughed, and observed, in the language of his
Youth, "There is life in the auld dowg yet."

There seems to be something wrong in the last two lines of
page 198: "it's no right with him but excitement" does not
appear to be sensible, and it has occurred to me that no right
is really a printer's misreading of nought, which would make
sense.

In line 10 of page 202, ought not eyes to be eyes'? That
is to say, it was his eyes' settling and noting, and not his
eyes, that wrung the exclamation from him.

In line 16 of page 202, I think the reading would be smoother
if the comma after shoes were omitted, and similarly I would
suggest the omission of the comma after farmyard in line 17

If you are right in spelling beild as you do in line 10
from the foot of page 203, as I have no doubt you are, it is an
exception to the general rule of "i before e except after c".
(Chamber's Dictionary has bield, however.)