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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