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[letterhead] Telephone No 2747 Mayfair

30, Green Street Park Lane W.1.

July 29 1931

Dear Colonel Buchan,

The "Blanket of the Dark" has been (naturally) a very great pleasure to me, conjuring up an England innocent of petrol fumes & leading one into the greenwood, but I sd. [should] not have troubled you with this letter, tho' it

certainly needs no answer, but for the Epilogue. I don't know if you may have heard from Aubrey of the noble name of Bohun transmogrified into Bunne, if so forgive a twice told tale. If not, it may interest you to hear your Epilogue borne out by my personal knowledge. At Teversal, now sold, but a manor with tenans dating from

Hen[ry] VII, a Molyneux property brought in by my Howard grandmother, there was about 50 - 40 years ago, an old hedger & ditcher called Mr. Bun. When he died, the Parish register was examined & it was discovered that his original family name was Bohun. Teversal is not far from Sherwood Forest & the little churches in its immediate neighbourhood have monuments of Forest Rangers. In Hen[ry] VIII's time it must have been mainly Forest all round.

I was too excited by your mention of this change of name not to write you my testimony to the same effect

Ever yours

Winifred Burghclere