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R.M.S. "Kildman Castle", - near
Cape Town - Monday, July
26th, 1926

My dear Buchan

I want to thank you ever so
much for "The Dancing Floor" : it
has the same fine quality as
"Midwinter" surely, - the
sense of perilous lands, or
of seas, and of casements opening.
And then there's that that real
Good Friday and easter
thrill of Heroic victory : I'm
indeed grateful to you for
helping me to that thrill again. There
is a Scots Presbyterian Minister
aboard making for Kikuyu
in East Africa, and I lent
it to him after he took our
Sunday night service last
week : he seemed to really
appreciate it. I think his name is
Stevenson : he is from Edinburgh
University, but I've not seen so very