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Novels, and I shall frequently return to your pages.
Very many thanks both for writing so satisfying a book
and for sending me a copy!

I do trust that you have all had a good winter
and that you are not overworking.

I am greatly obliged to Mrs. John for the
periodical literature that she so kindly sends. I was
much interested in a recent number of Life and Letters,
especially in an article on Flaubert.

I wish I could have been at the meeting of the
Church Congress at which you spoke on the relations of
Kirk and State. It would, I am sure, have been worth a
great deal. I expect that you aroused a good deal of envy
in Anglican breasts.

There is a lull in the local union battle. I
imagine that the recalcitrant Presbytery Clerk thinks
that I am satisfied to have union in immediate prospect
and that I have nothing more to say. I have, however, in
preparation a bomb which is likely to be thrown when union
has taken place with a view to discouraging for the future
such malpractices as have agitated this community for the
better part of a year and have made union far more difficult
than it need have been.

Ever yours affectionately,
C.H. Dick

[ST - The Reverend Charles Dick
old friend]