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11, Ridgmont Road,
St.Albans.

26th July, 1933.

Dear Mr. Buchan,

It is very kind of you to find time to write
me and to send so welcome a letter. I am very
glad indeed that you see reason in some of my
points and that you have realised that I wrote in
no unfriendly spirit. I may perhaps confess that
my personal feeling about Caesar was created entirely
by his own writings, which I read through in
the Summer of 1929 when I was preparing a little book
on Great Writers of Rome for Benn's Sixpenny Series.
My feeling against Mommsen's really unscrupulous
treatment of ancient evidence is of very old standing;
but it mainly arose from things for which the general
reader cares little; and it wasn't until I decided to
write this paper that I looked into the evidence of
Caesar's conduct in detail, and it seemed to me to
confirm my unpleasant impressions to a quite surprising