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Worcester College
Oxford

March 6, 1932

Dear Buchan

My best thanks for your Scott which I am delighted
to have. I fear I shall not have time to read it carefully
till the end of the week, but I am not going to study your
views of my favourite novelist hastily.

A glance is most tempting. I am glad you pay tribute to the
opening chapters of Waverley; it is high time someone did.
Personally I refuse to admit that the Baron is a "comedy figure".
He has too much in common with Don Quixote, and too
good a way of putting things. "Fuimus Troes ... and there's
the end of an auld sang" etc.

When your next edition comes out, you may like to correct
a misprint in the index under Peveril of the Peak; the
last entries should be 250, 253-255 instead of 350, 353-
355.

I believe Hudson threw doubts on the story of Crabbe first meeting
Scott after the latter's reception of the King. I have a letter