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Surgery Hours at 6, Middlewich Rd., Sandbach, 6-0 to 7-0 P.M. on Weekdays Except Thursdays. Thursdays, 2-0 to 4-0 P.M.
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Saddler's Close Holmes Chapel, Chesire.
Surgery Hours: 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. 2-0 to 2-30 p.m. and 8-0 to 8-30 p.m.
Telephone: 12 Holmes Chapel Telegrams: "Picton, Holmes-Chapel" Station: Holmes Chapel. (L.M.S. mail line)
15 May 1932
Dear Sir,
I wish to be allowed to thank you for the pleasure - & more than pleasure, - I have had in reading your "Sir Walter Scott".
A young Rhodes scholar, a friend of my son's, who stays with us sometimes, left it with me at his last visit, saying he thought I would like to read it. A country doctor's leisure is little; but for the last month this book has been the delight of my late evenings.
Sir Walter was the hero of my youth. A visit to Abbotsford late one evening - I broke the journey from Edinburgh to Bath by a 3 hours stop at Melrose, & the housekeeper shewed me the house by candlelight - made me free of his world in a more personal way. Your book, near half a life time later makes the extent of his influence clear to me.
I am sir, yours faithfully
Lionel Jas: Picton
