2110-5-11-13

304 Elm Tree Road Mansions, N.W.8.

17th March. 1932.

Dear Mr. Buchan,

I am very glad if I have been able to repay a small part of a large debt of pleasure. And what I said, I meant.

It is an appalling job to suggest to anyone, but after all, you have surely, between Scott and Montrose, won a spur for each foot. Won't you, some day, use them in a chevauchee after Good Lord James, and take over from the most lovable and spirited of Archdeacons - in plain terms (or as plain as that devil's own invention, writer's cramp, will allow) do a Bruce? - a large-scale one. Life and

Times, all proper, with a nice fat introduction on the achievement of nationhood under the sons and grandsons of St Margaret? Yes, I know the "sources" are "a big blooming buzzing confusion", laced with blanks in the most exasperating places. But think of the stuff! And the job is fairly yelling to be done, Please don't leave it to to some quarter-baked little Edinburgh high-brow who's just heard of Lytton Strachey! And forgive me for being impertinent!

Yours sincerely

Agnes Mure Mackenzie

[ST: Agnes Muir [Mure] Mackenzie Scottish historian]