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17 Feb. 25

Dear Buchan,

I don't remember fresh faces at all well, and I'm always afraid I may be meeting you at the Athenaeum and missing the pleasure of a few words with you.

Lady Minto told me of your book - and hers.

I met her at lunch at a friend's house. It is a delightful book, from whatever angle one looks at it. I was presenting the men of my College for their B.A. degree that December day in 1866 when Melgund "made up" as a man with a

very bad cold and so hid his colours and his breeches, but I "nailed" his boots. The man he beat was brother or first cousin of a school fellow of mine; and Hudson who gated Montgomerie for shooting pens was a schoolfellow too.

You may be amused to hear that greatly as I enjoy all you write, I award the gold medal to "The Gorbals Die-hards go into action", and "have you got him!"

yours sincerely

G.F. Browne