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[R.H. Davis]

THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY TWO-EIGHTY BROADWAY NEW YORK

Munsey"s Magazine, Argosy-All-Story Weekly

Members, All Fiction Field

August 13th, 1924 .

Re: The Three Hostages by: John Buchan

My dear Sir John:

It was my intention after I accepted THE THREE HOSTAGES to write you a letter and express my gratitude. But, I found that the fish in Minneasota were not to be sneered at so I fled westward ho and let all my good intentions go by the board.

I take this occasion to say to you, however, that I never let a manuscript of yours get out of my office until I have read it myself. THE THREE HOSTAGES had everything that emanates from an author who knows how to write and what to write. I suppose you have seen all the reviews that the book inspired? I enclose one from the N.Y. Evening Post Literary Review. All classes surrender to its spell.

I consider myself an excellent judge of good fiction.

I have had my eye on you since you created David Crawford, and have read everything you have written, including your war books.

Hope to see more of you in the written word and some of you, before I pass, in the flesh.

My proposed trip to England last Spring

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was a flop, but I shall come and you first will know of my arrival.

Salutations, Sir John, garnished with high esteem.

Always sincerely, R. Davis

To Sir John BUCHAN, 35 Paternoster Row, E. C., Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England.

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