TELEGRAMS: UNDERSHAW,

   GRAYSNOTT. HINDHEAD,

   HASLEMERE.

  Dear Burgin,

  I shall be here for Xmas. I am
  rather tied by the interest which I take
  in the Corps of Riflemen — a real
  commando of burghers — which I am
  forming here. I already have 60
  and hope to get 100. I hope it will
  be part of a great movement. You
  could not do better than come
  down some shooting day, say
  next Saturday, spend a day here,
  and write the movement up in the
  Express. If its is known about, it will
  find imitators which is what I want.

  If you could make a paragraph
  to the effect that my relationship to
  Hornung had always prevented me

  from expressing in public the very
  high opinion which I have of the
  quality of his works, but that I
  had said in conversation (as I
  did to you) that I regarded "Peccavi
  as a very fine and a very noble
  book, you would be doing us
  both a service.

  I'll let you know any literary
  news which occur to me. With
  your inside knowledge your
  literary column should be the
  best in London.

  Yours very truly

  A. C. D.

   TELEGRAMS: UNDERSHAW,

   GRAYSNOTT. HINDHEAD,

   HASLEMERE.

  Dear Burgin,

  I shall be here for Xmas. I am
  rather tied by the interest which I take
  in the Corps of Riflemen — a real
  commando of burghers — which I am
  forming here. I already have 60
  and hope to get 100. I hope it will
  be part of a great movement. You
  could not do better than come
  down some shooting day, say
  next Saturday, spend a day here,
  and write the movement up in the
  Express. If its is known about, it will
  find imitators which is what I want.

  If you could make a paragraph
  to the effect that my relationship to
  Hornung had always prevented me

  from expressing in public the very
  high opinion which I have of the
  quality of his works, but that I
  had said in conversation (as I
  did to you) that I regarded "Peccavi
  as a very fine and a very noble
  book, you would be doing us
  both a service.

  I'll let you know any literary
  news which occur to me. With
  your inside knowledge your
  literary column should be the
  best in London.

  Yours very truly

  A. C. D.