BIB_ID
191733
Accession number
MA 4932 (1-5)
Creator
Buchan, John, 1875-1940.
Display Date
1933-1938.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
5 items (4 p.) + with 3 envelopes.
Summary
Thanking him for praise of his books Sir Walter Scott (1932) and Augustus (1937); giving advice on Wagenknecht's plan for a book on Princess Elizabeth; disagreeing with Dame Una Pope-Hennessy's assessment of Scott's writing, saying she "does not understand the workings of a novelist's mind"; and confirming that Lady Scott drank. With a typed letter signed from Susan Tweedsmuir, his wife, To Wagenknecht, dated Oxford, 7 May 1946, in response to his request to include one of Tweedsmuir's stories in his anthology of ghost stories.
Catalog link
Department