2110-6-1-15

South African House Trafalgar Sq., London

Union-Castle Line S.S. "Llanstephan Castle"

July 2, 1932

Dear Mr. Buchan,

The joy that your Scott has brought me is so great - & I am sure enduring - that I must obtrude myself upon you to express my thanks.

Breaking up my home, farewell functions and the diversion of a marvellous trip through the Rhodesias - all incident to my retirement as professor of English in University work in South Africa -

caused a delay in reading your book, while my own feeling for Scott made me fear it a little.

And now, in my journey up the East Coast it has been mine and I do not know how to thank you for all you have given me in it, of Scott, of literature, of yourself.

Scott is more mine than ever, more humanly mine. Your style, judicial attitude, references, critical study of Scott's separate writings & of his place & value as a whole, your innumerable touches that cannot be defined, all give me happiness now & a knowledge that there will still be - when I have settled into their ghastly state called retirement - all the increasing joy of literature to go on with in life.

My hope is to do some work on Scott as a critic, a subject I have been interested in for many years.

Whatever I may do, your work on Scott will be a help, a joy, an inspiration. You have done very much for us all in writing this book.

I shall get a copy for myself to keep by me for all the things it means to me, not the least of which is a greater knowledge of the self you

have so carefully kept out of the work.

Please excuse my handwriting. The Bay of Biscay is always joggly.

I am, more gratefully than you can know,

Yours sincerely,

Florence M. Snell.