2110-5-10-17

95, Comely Bank Avenue, Edinburgh.

3rd March 1932

My dear Dr Buchan,

I am very busy devouring your "Sir Walter Scott" with gratitude and delight and would like to send you this tiny article of mine with homage from the least of Scott's lovers to one of his greatest successors - though I doubt if we'll see his likes again.

I've mentioned books by you on pages 14 and 57 and wish your noble new volume had been before me when I wrote page 241. I hope I have been fair and courteous to Carswell there, but his treatment of Sir Walter hurt a multitude of us as much as the scurvy treatment of Lawrence could possibly have vexed Carswell himself. Your book will restore the sense of justice, I am sure.

May I send you also my pastiche for Kate Kennedy's Day at St. Andrews last Saturday, where I found many of your

constituents besides myself in good fettle & looking eagerly forward to the publication of your book to-day.

With renewed thanks

Ever yours sincerely

W.H. Hamilton