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BERKS AND BUCKS JOINT SANATORIUM, PEPPARD COMMON, OXON.

Chief Medical Officer: ESTHER CARLING, M.D.

Superintendent: HENRY F. CARLING.

Sep 11th [1924?]

Dear Col. Buchan

Your books are doubtless classified in many ways but I wonder if they have been put where we think they should be catalogued - among the anodynes & sedatives of the British Pharmacopoeia. Anyway after opium, aspirin, counter-irritants, fomentations & every other known remedy failed to relieve the utter misery of abcess formation in throat & ear Mr Standfast & The Three Hostages taken continuously & endlessly, hour upon hour did make life bearable for 2 sad people. It

had to be connected with your name & certain familiarities from the Dragon School to give it a start but very quickly Richard Hannay was off on his own account & then was followed breathlessly to the end.

Someone told us they had seen a poor review of the "Three Hostages". We would make short work of that Reviewer if he came our way! The book is a friend for life & a grateful family desires to thank you.

Yours truly

Esther Carling