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July 26/32

Wilton Lodge, Queen's Crescent Southsea

John Buchan, Esq.

Dear Sir, I must first apologize for inflicting on you a letter from a complete stranger But I am already indebted to you for the great pleasure with which I have read your book on Sir Walter Scott and that twice within a week, I have read your subject & many books about him from old Shooting days in Scotland in the Seventies of last century. Your, may I say? - noble book

is one more proof that this mine is inexhaustible to the true labourer, especially to one who seems to have inherited Scott's laborious and acute humility. Your two last chapters contain more than one general comment on the man and his writings which I take leave to welcome as an epigram in solution.

Your footnote to page 117 is a welcome confirmation of views long held by my old schoolfellow, Lord Francis Hervey, and by myself, in a minor sense his collaborator. I am very respectfully yours

Harold A Perry

sometime Fellow of King's cantabr.