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Curtis and Curtis Attorneys-At-Law Charles P. Curtis, Jr. Richard C. Curtis

Telephone Main 2684 47 Ames Building Boston, Massachusetss

October 21 1925

Dear Mr. Buchan,

I have asked Houghton Mifflin to send you the book which my brother and I have written on our trip to East Africa in 1923. It pretends to little more than veracity and a decent simplicity, but not all travel or hunting books on Africa have these virtues.

I read John McNab with all the interest and love I felt in your four novels, and I had the honor of reviewing it for the Atlantic Monthly. Weren't your three heroes troubled with accidie? which is described somewhere in the Parson's Tale.

Mrs. Curtis & I have far from forgotten my dinner at Roger Merriman's. May I ask you to give my best regards to Mrs. Buchan?

Yours most sincerely, Charles P. Curtis Jr.