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115, Burnt Oak Lane,
Sidcup,
Kent

6.1.1925.

John Buchan, Esq.

Dear Sir,

I trust you will pardon the liberty I am
taking in writing to you, but I would very much
like to ask you a question; if you would answer it
for me I should indeed be grateful.

Recently I finished reading your book on
Oliver Cromwell. In it I came across a short
account of James NAYLOR, and his sufferings.
For some time, Sir, I have been interested in that man
since my name, too, is Naylor, and I also am a
Quaker. My question is, why do you spell his
name NAYLOr? Why the O?

In the volume on "The Beginnings of Quakerism" by
Wm. C. Braithwaite in the Quaker History Series, he is always