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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]