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Blue Dragon
P.O. Oban
26-vii. 25

My dear Buchan,

I told Billy to tell you how much I like
the new book - John Macnab - though nothing of
a fisherman or stalker myself, - & I begin to
appreciate how much I have missed - the
yarn greatly delighted myself & the crew -
One young lady thinks that the younger Claybody
was let off too lightly - but the story wd. not
have been quite perfect unless it all ended
well - Thank you very much - You
novelists can be the greatest benefactors to
your contemporaries - take us away from
worries & cares - & some of you are such
& some are not - One Aldons Hurly deserves
boiling oil 'sine judice' & of course a
large number are hopeless - well thank God
for the good ones.

Yours ever

Skipper