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[in margin:] position have captivated all my admiration and homage. I don't want just to hero-worship him - he would hate it so.

with much love,

yours ever

Mary Trevelyan.

WALLINGTON, CAMBO, MORPETH.

Dear John Buchan

Thank you immensely for 'John Macnab'. I am enjoying it as much as any of your books; there is such a good out-door feeling about it, and the people are so nice. I like it better than "Three Hostages", which depressed me rather at times. The family will read it in August, when they go to Normandy, & I shall be learning Dutch with my Dutch aunt. I am reading William III hard, and am going to write a thesis (I hope) for Daddy. What is your

quarrel with him about military affairs, may I ask? I cannot find any complaints of his generalship, though he was by no means a brilliant one like Marlborough, and to my mind, he did this England incalculable service by shaking her out of her island aloofness and taking her into the great Protestant struggle on the continent against the powers of Hell, commanded by Louis XIV. We had been too long wrapped up in domestic quarrels, and the war he brought us into was one neither of conquest nor dynastic ambition, but of righteous protest against a great & insolent power. Didn't we learn how to fight and bear the hardships of campaigning under him, so that Marlborough after him could lead us to victories such as had never been seen before? But I should very much like to be instructed by you in any criticisms you have to make of a man whose personality and