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1, Crescent Grove,
Clapham,
London, S.W.4

3.X.37.

Dear Lord Tweedsmuir,

I cannot sufficiently
apologise for my delay in thanking
you for a letter which gave
me such pleasure & delight -
chiefly as a Scot, but also as an
Oxford woman who thinks of Elsfield
as much as of Tweedsmuir. But
I stupidly handed your very kind
& encouraging letter to the Oxford
Press, without making any copy, knowing any publisher would
be pleased to see it, especially as the
book is my first one. The Press kept
the letter some time - rather because