2110-5-6-1

[L.A. Waddell]

55, Campbell Street Greenock.

7th Jany 1930

John Buchan Esq. M.P. LL.D. &c

Dear Sir

I beg to offer for your acceptance, as a token of the lively pleasure I have derived from your works, a copy ^(per parcel post) of the newly recognized great & remotely ancient British national dramatic epic, existing in No. in the Ancient British language in its present literary form at least 5 centuries before Shakespeare, & probably existing in little different dialectic form before Caedmon's day, & now reconstructed from its disjointed lays into its orginal sequence by historical keys & literally englished by me under the title of "The British Edda".

It recovers, amongst other things, the hitherto unknown Early British & original pre-Christian source of the legends of King Arthur & the Holy Grail & "St George of Cappadocia & Merrie England".

Although so seemingly "romantic" in its heroic theme, it's nevertheless a genuine historical record of the thrilling struggles of the ancestors of the British people in their establishing the Blessings of Civilization in the early world. Its astonishing historicity is strikingly attested by the fact that over an hundred of the pictorial illustrations of its episodes are taken by me from Ancient Sumerian, Babylonian & Cappadocian sacred seals, dating from about 3,400 B.C. to 1500 B.C., which agree in their minutest details with the British Edda epic as handed down by our British ancestors.

P.T.O.

And the Ancient Sumerian, Babylonian & Cappadocian contemporary & early literary traditional records of those heroic achievements are generally in strict agreement with the British Edda texts.

In the hope that this work will interest you, not only by its theme, its national as well as world wide historical importance, & its discovery of the historic basis of classic heroic mythology, but also as the earliest of all "English" dramatic epics.

I am, yours very respectfully

L. Austine Waddell (LL.D. Glasg. Univ.)