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LEINSTER CORNER, LANCASTER GATE, W., 



22nd Oct., 1902. 

 DEAR SIR, 



I thank you for the copy of " How I Killed the Tiger " 

 which I read with pleasure, and I hope it will have such a 

 sale as will materially help in the objects for which it was 

 published. 



Yours truly, 



J. M. BARRIE. 

 Lieut. -Col. SHEFFIELD. 



GIVONS, LEATHERHEAD, 



22nd Oct., 1902, 

 DEAR SIR, 



My father, George Meredith, has asked me to write 

 in reply to your letter, as letters to him now are a considerable 

 effort and he is at present at work on a new book which takes 

 all his strength and energy. He read the story you sent him 

 and was much interested in it and thought it worth publica- 

 tion. He hopes you may be able to make the amount you 

 need for the building. 



Believe me, yours truly, 



MARIE STURGIS. 



yoA, GROSVENOR STREET, 



22nd Oct., 1902. 

 DEAR COL. SHEFFIELD, 



I have read your book with much enjoyment, and 

 sympathise entirely with the object for which it is written. 

 Wishing all success to your Cadet Corps. 



I am, very truly yours, 



HELEN MATHERS. 

 Lieut. -Col. SHEFFIELD. 



Press Opinions, 



BROAD ARROW. "By a happy coincidence the review of 

 this book has fallen to one who, shortly after the thrilling occurrence 

 of which it treats, became acquainted first-hand with its details. 

 We are therefore in a position to say that it is no fairy tale 

 or ' snake story,' but an interesting account of a desperate 

 hand-to-hand encounter (if we may so call it) between the author 

 and a full-grown tiger. Not less wonderful is the further fact 

 that the tiger was killed and that the author recovered, although 

 terribly mauled. The belated publication of his adventure is 

 due to Lieutenant-Colonel Sheffield's interest in his cadet bat- 

 talion, which is in want of funds to build headquarters and 

 to provide for their maintenance. To these objects the whole 

 profits of the book will be devoted, so we have a further pleasure 

 in recommending it for that reason. It is, however, not only 

 a well-told tiger story, but also a book which gives a large 

 amount of useful and interesting information about India, its 



