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[embossed letterhead: 53, Ella Street, Hull.]

14-XII-34

To Mr. John Buchan

Dear Mr. Buchan

Under separate cover I send a specimen of my work, which I ask you to accept. The time spent on it is equal to only a small part of the many hours of enjoyment I have had in reading your books & trust that the subject and treatment apppeal to you. I am a school teacher, having been out of college for one year. On recent Friday afternoons I have been telling my boys episodes from "The Path of the King". You would have been very flattered had you seen the interest with which the class followed the narrative. It made a strong appeal to them, and in the same way each of your books finds a response in any reader who, like Stevenson, has never grown out of the highwayman and pirate stage. Pity The man who does!

I would like also to thank you for your fine study of Sir Walter Scott. My Scott shelf com-

[com]prises your book, the poems, and the Abbotsford edition, 1842-7.

I send my best wishes for Christmas and to New York to Mrs. Buchan and yourself, and am

Your obedient servant

Raymond Fieldhouse