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Telegrams:
Amberley, Glos.
Telephone: Amberley 14.
Station: Stroud. C.W.R.

LITTLEWORTH HOUSE,
AMBERLEY,
Gloucestershire.

April 27th 1932

Lieut. Colonel John Buchan, M. P.,

Dear Sir,

I have just read with extreme interest
your book on Sir Walter Scott, and I am venturing to write and
tell you how much I have enjoyed it. I was brought up on
Walter Scott, and my mother used to read his books aloud to us
when we were small boys, 65 years ago, and I think by the time
I was 14 I had read all his novels, except "St. Ronan's Well"
and some of the shorter stories . From time to time I reread
them, and of recent years have read many of them over again
more than once. A few years ago I read Lockhart's Life of
Scott with intense interest, because it threw so much light
upon the Novels themselves, the characters which they portrayed,
and the circumstances under which the y were written; and now
your book will enable me to reread some of them, at any rate,
with added interest. Whenever I talke one down from my
shelves, I shall look at your book to see what you have to say
about it .

My father was also a great admirer of
Scott's Novels, and he and I used to argue as to which was the
best. He favoured "The Heart of Midlothian" whereas I placed