2110-3-10-9

[handwritten] [V. WATNEY]

[printed] CORNBURY PARK, CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE.

[handwritten] 25 May 1921

[printed] TELEPHONE I, CHARLBURY.

[handwritten] My dear Buchan,

"Some Books are to be Tasted, other to be Swallowed, and some Few to be Chewed and Digested."

I am sending to you a copy of my book on Cornbury; not without diffidence, for I know many of its defects; but, such as it is, if you care to keep it, and to taste it, I shall be glad; and, as Dizzy said, "Books are companions, even if you do n't open them."

Yours very truly, Vernon Watney

[handwritten] [M. WATNEY] [typed] CORNBURY PARK, CHARLBURY, OXFORDSHIRE

[handwritten] Oct 12

[typed] TELEPHONE I. CHARLBURY

[handwritten] Dear Mr. Buchan,

Thank you so much. I saw the verses it seems ages ago - through now a mist of tears - & they are so much a part of him: :self. His home, garden, country were his loves & he now lies so gratefully in that wonderful Beyond of which he gave

us all the sunshine.

Enclosed is a little snapshot of his last view, & he passed over & the greater view without even a tremour.

Thank you again very much,

Yours very sincerely & gratefully

Margaret Watney

[full-page photograph- landscape]

[handwritten] The actual view

[stamp] WALLACE HEATON LTD E627

[signature]