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19th April, 1932

4, Clermiston Terrace,
Corstorphine,
Edinburgh.

Colonel John Buchan,
Elsfield Manor,
Oxford.

Dear Sir,

I have just finished reading your
book on "Sir Walter Scott" and I wish to
let you know how greatly I have enjoyed
it and how much I appreciate your estimate
of him and his work. It is because I
have gained so much pleasure from the
book that I take the liberty, which I
trust you will not consider presumptious, of
pointing out one or two slips and inaccuracies in
case you may wish to prepare a second edition.

On page 55 you say that Scott's heart "was soon