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[R. West]

80 Onslow Gardens, S.W.7. Kensington 5272

October 31st 1929

Dear Mr Buchan

I found your letter when I came from France in the middle of October, but ever since then I have been (as I regret to hear you have been too) an invalid, and I've been subjected to tiresome treatments that forbade me answering letters. Now I'm well I hasten to thank you for liking my book and - in a world where people are so much readier to tell you when they don't like something than than to tell when they do! - writing to tell me so. I have a peculiarly affectionate feeling toward "Harriet". All winter and spring I was ill and worried out of my life by a tiresome

legal business concering family affairs, and I used to sit down in a sort of trance and write "Harriet" without quite knowing what I was doing - and now though it is my creation it seems almost as independent of me as if it were a child.

I hope we shall meet again some day.

Sincerely

Rebecca West