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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