Pigsurat ni Greene an A Burnt-Out Case para ki Docteur Michel Lechat, sarong medical doctor sa leper colony kan Yonda sa Africa. Sa dedikasyon nya ki Lechat, pigsurat ni Greene: "Doctor Colin has borrowed from you his experience of leprosy and nothing else. Doctor Colin's leproserie is not your leproserie.... From the fathers of your Mission I have stolen the Superior's cheroots--that is all, and from your Bishop the boat that he was so generous as to lend me for a journey up the Ruki."