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March 3rd 1932
Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland.
Galashiels 143.
Dear Buchan
I am ordering today from Cassell and Co. a copy of your "Sir Walter Scott" and asking them to send it to you for your signature on the fly leaf. Would you very kindly do this for me and post it on here? My wife and I were delighted with the preliminary articles in the Glasgow Herald & I see today that you have two good reviews in that paper and in
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the Scotsman. We should much appreciate the author's signature in the book. May I also take this opportunity of offering you our hearty congratulations on your January 1st honour. Mind you come and look us up here this summer. My wife will be away from Easter until the middle of June. In any case we shall meet at Selkirk on June 18th and we should be delighted to put you and Mrs Buchan & Miss Buchan up in this house for that occasion and weekend. Do come!
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Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland.
Galashiels 143.
I have only one word of criticism (as per review in today's Scotsman) on your "Sir Walter". I gather you call Monsieur Charpentier of Lyons (Sir Walter's father-in-law) a Huguenot. This he certainly was not, as the two children were baptized Catholics in Lyons; but curiously enough they were re-baptised Protestants at St. George's Hanover Sq, London, sixteen and seventeen years later!
Yrs sincerely
Walter Maxwell Scott
