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[R.W Hartland]

[embossed letterhead: Penlar, North Way, Pinner, Middlesex]

31st Oct. 1932

To the Right Honourable John Buchan, Esq., M.P.

Sir,

Your lively interest in all that pertains
to your illustrious literary predecessor,
Sir Walter Scott, and your Radio Talk of a
short while since have induced me
to take this present liberty of writing to you.

I do not know to what extent you
resemble your literary forbear in
encyclopaedic knowledge of foreign
languages, literature and history.

I have little doubt, however,