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all the rest look like farthing dips.
My own Scott reading was all too early - it has ebbed away & left
mere pools of memory, but I
shall now start again, with a
new mentor. I think no living
man, save perhaps Barrie, could
have begun on such a programme
of sympathetic criticism &
insight as you have brought to
so successful a conclusion.

Yours ever

JC Stamp

[ST: Sir Josiah Stamp]