2110-6-8-23

2 NORTHMOOR ROAD, OXFORD.

Sept 26, 1934

Dear Col. Buchan,

Many thanks for your 'Cromwell' which I received this morning. I gather that you sent it two or three weeks ago, but I did not return to Oxford from my holiday till Sept 12, and during my absence my house was unoccupied.

Thanks also for the kind inscription you have inserted on the flyleaf. I like my work to be appreciated by good judges, and to be found of help.

I have read the first book of your Cromwell, and taken a glance at the rest, and I congratulate you on your success in producing so good a portrait of the man. I don't know how many copies you printed, but I have no doubt it will reach a second edition. When it does I shall doubtless have a few notes to send you. I used to annotate Gardiner's later volumes in the same way, sometimes amplifying, at other times differing and criticising. I find much to agree with in your volume, but a point now & then where I should raise a doubt.

During the winter months I stay at home most of the time and am sometimes confined to the house. I no longer frequent the Athenaeum, or come to London for meetings of Societies or committees. Some time when you are in Oxford we might meet and discuss things at your convenience. That is, after I have read the rest of your volume, which will be in about a week from now.

I write before I have finished reading it, because I do not wish to leave a gift unacknowledged.

Yours truly

C.H. Frith