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22nd October 1934
Dear Mr. Buchan
I wrote you in December 1932 to thank you for your life of Montrose. In my letter I asked why you did not write a life of "the man of faith and matchless fortitude". It is interesting for me to see that you must have been engaged on it when I wrote.
Words would fail me if I endeavoured to convey to you one-tenth of the pleasure your book has given me. I have read it twice and shall read it over & over & over again.
It is to me as if you had written a true, splendid and thoroughly understanding life of a dear personal friend of mine.
I had never seen the Pitti Gallery portrait of Oliver Cromwell. I am certain it is far more like him than the one in the National Portrait Gallery.
Thank you a thousand times for your book.
[A. London Scot.]
P.S. It is good that your book has been published at the same time as Hilaire Belloc's ephemeral one. It is obviously impossible for a Papist to write on such a subject with the faintest chance of being fair. One might as well expect a Jesuit to write a useful biography of Luther or Zwingli.
John Buchan. Esq, M.P
