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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.

2196

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