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type of man revealed in his writings that
one could accept his share of your story
as an actual chronicle of his doings at that
period. I congratulate you and I thank
you.

I remember reading your Mr Standfast. I was
disappointed - the Pilgrim's Progress idea did
not work out as clearly or as fully as I had
anticipated. But in Midwinter you have
succeeded and I agree with my son who
on handing on the book said - This is by
John Buchan, the best he has done yet.

I wish you would write one now around
George Fox and the early Quakers. Fox's Journal,
Miss Brailsford's Quaker Women & numerous little
booklets published at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate,
would give you the atmosphere. I am no Quaker
but the Mystical form of their religion is a fascinating
study. I saw something of its real effects during the
War. Living near their Meeting House at Leytonstone
I occasionally joined their evening services. Some
of their young men had gone to the War, some were
C.O's, but they were not the interesting people. These
were the older ones, who were working themselves up
into the mentality of the martyrs and developing
all the characteristics of their forbears in the days
of persecution - a very painful thing to behold.
I commend the subject to you.

With all good wishes

Yours faithfully

Robert H. Whitehead.