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JOHN ROBERT MOORE Professor of English INDIANA UNIVERSITY

611 S. Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana, U. S. A., November 1, 1934.

John Buchan, Esq ., Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England.

Dear Sir:

As one of the most enthusiastic of your admirers in America, perhaps I may be permitted to suggest two little corrections in the American edition of The Free Fishers:

l. The announcement by Houghton Mifflin inside the jacket gives the locale of 'Hungrygrain' as "on the Firth of Forth." I take it that the pursuers of Mr. Anthony Lammas followed him on the English side of the Border, not many miles from the region where King James saw the English army

"Wheeling their march, and circling still, Around the base of Flodden hill."

2 . In the story itself two very different men are said to remind Sir Tournour Wyse of Lord Byron. On P. 108 it is the evil beauty of Cranmer which recalls "Childe Harold, ••• Or his creator." But on P. 252 it is of Harry Belses that we read

"Again Sir Tournour was struck by his unpleasing resemblance to that young Lord Byron whom he did not love."

Faithfully yours John Robert Moore

You may be pleased to know that my fifteen-year-old namesake agrees with me in regarding Prester John as the best book for boys he has ever read.