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To John Buchan:
I have read your "The Path of the King." many times. The prologue captured my spirit.
It is a book that I have studied; for you have written yourself in its pages to an extent that only one who can absorb the soul of the producer can feel.
How the great story came, and took form, troubles me
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not. But that the man lives who can do such a thing gives me a sacred joy.
Are these days any better than those when one young man in the Path of the Ring drank from his helmet and ate the morsel of bread before he gave his body for his faith?
The romance of a whole universe is within that story.
I am a writer, but a dislocated spine keeps me in. But, as the years passed by, I felt the soul within me, soaring, mounting,
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returning with knowledge, which, transmuted into wisdom, gave me power to read the souls of men.
It was one great soul I read within that book. Yet, many will consider it but a romance of this world.
It is a romance of the soul of man, in any, in all worlds. There are passages in it, - such as the last words in "The Maid"-, whose literary beauty have never been excelled
No writer has ever presented the soul of Lincoln
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as you have.
This day and age has not your equal in the continuity of legend, weaving from history a fabric of surpassing beauty.
Accept this clumsy tribute from one who knows.
And accept the blessing of your sincere friend
(Mrs) Clara St. Michael
A letter to 102½ Myrtle Ave. Long Beach, Calif. without any name will reach me.
I hope you will honor me with a line
Jan. 8. 1925
