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a fervent admirer of The Thirty-Nine Steps [underlined]
it is not from anything but the
memory of a pre-war day when
I first drove through parts of
Galloway & learned that
Cairnsmore of Carsphairn's
the biggest of the three.

How excited I was, again,
when I seemed to hear Stevenson
speak in your long piece of verse
on looking from the Pentlands.

As for Meredith, I fear I find his
words too distressingly intellectual.
Perhaps my generation (I was up at
St. Hilda's in the war years) is
mistrustful of sheer brain. But I
adore Love in the Valley [underlined].

Once more, let me thank
you for a letter which I am very
proud to possess.

Yours sincerely,
Doris N. Dalglish