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KINGS LAND,
SHIPLEY,
HORSHAM.

7. xi. 34

My dear Buchan,

I was really delighted to get your letter!
I wish you had reviewed my book,
for I should very much like to have heard your view
- not of the disputed facts such as the planning of Charles'
death - but of the view of the man. I guess I
was right. I think he was mainly a soldier, as
soldiers then were, & a soldier who discovered himself.
The book was only hack work, after all, but the
theme is of interest. Historically a main
[juvat?] - impossible to put numerically - is the
survival of English Catholicism: strong up to 1642,
noticeable in 1680: striken in 1688-1715. It died
- the tiny remnant of it in 1745. Hence a