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Knowle Hotel,
Sidmouth
Telephone No 5 Sidmouth

20.4.32

My dear Buchan

I have taken advantage of my leisure to
read both "Scott" & "Caesar" again, more carefully
& with more savouring of their taste - & I
feel I must write to congratulate you again
on both, especially the former. Scott is real
biography, always interesting yet with what to
me is vital - that care to give all that is
relevant to a true picture of the man & his
work. The summing up is, as it should be,
the best part of the book. Your "Scott" is a
masterly portrait in oils, while "The Duke"
is merely brilliant caricature.