Letter from S.R. Crockett to old friend (bookseller)
Everyman series, books, library, Mary McConnachie, uncles Robert and William, village library, Sunday School libraries, book collecting, 51st birthday
Written on 51st birthday; thanks friend for care about Everyman series; explains away in London placing work and arranging for sons (one Navy, other journalism); Mary McConnachie will receive and shelve books; requests catalogues of other series to supplement Everyman; describes disposing of uncles' 2000 volumes of religious tales, keeping only Galloway and standard books, donating rest to village and Sunday School libraries; reflects on early book-buying from friend and J.R. Murdoch; expresses lifelong hunger for books often going poor to feed his mind; notes sons lack same keenness with access to 30-40,000 volume library; warmly praises bookseller friend's universal kindness, wisdom and intelligence
Bookseller friend (recipient), Mary McConnachie, uncles Robert and William, Mr Henderson, Mr Thomson, J.R. Murdoch (mentioned)