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Clinique Miremont
Leysin Switzerland

Jan 31. 1928.

Dear John. I've just finished "Witch Wood" & I can't
stay my hand from writing to tell you how
really great I feel it. You gave it me long ago,
but it was devoured by my family & taken away
from Tollet & only restored to me to bring out here
to read under very ideal conditions. I somehow
feel that Walter Scott must be reaching out over
the blue bar of Heaven longing to talk to you &
tell you how he enjoyed it too. For it has his
force in it as in "Heart of Midlothian" - I mean that
the conflicts of soul & the great ultimate issues
in it are so great - & then your landscapes & your
delight in your Scotch language too (Lola tried to
read Witch Wood & put it wearily aside & said "Its too