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Barrie Ontario Canada
Jan 21st 1935
Sir, having had much pleasure in following a biography written by one John Buchan The subject being the Lord General Oliver Cromwell The book being of recent date I presume the Author to be a living one. Therefore I tender my most grateful thanks if this should reach his hands for the happy hours I have spent in his company. I say this as I often think when reading a book and let into the secrets and greatness of their minds that I am with He or She who writes. So please excuse my sitting with you while you painted
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the picture of our Great General who which or rather with faults like none of us are free.
I am just an uneducated man but I was born in our one and only beloved England and my heart is still there, although living in other Countries for the past 30 years. Therefore with what I was taught in the public school I have tried to gather some knowledge of my country by reading.
I think Oliver was a greater man in his day than we of this time think. I should think he was more truthful in his religion than some would suppose. I have read
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the stories of the formost soldiers of the world, but I would like to place Cromwell not very distant from the top remembering most of the great warriers were furnished men money & equipment whereas he appears to have made or got together his armies, and making them into fighting units which must have drained his own resourses. Therefore one must think that no braver man ever fought for Old England.
Sir, I have read a great many books mostly by the Great Masters of the 17 & 18 Century but have
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to my sorrow never been able to show my gratitude but hold them in thankful commemeration So if these lines reach the one they are intended for John Buchan will be long remembered & esteemed by
Frederick S Huse.
P.S. What do you think of the little play of Oliver in Sir Walter Scots 'Woodstock'
