Jameson, Margaret Storm, 1891-1986

"Thank you so much for this train pamphlet. I'll certainly look into it [...] I do hope and hope you've found the missing pocket of drawings, or remembered something you did with them..."

"How splendid to see your writing on an envelope. I thought of you and your family gathering after I left London and hoped it would not be in ways a strain, as family gatherings almost always are..."

"Thank you for the photographs. You must have had to work awfully hard during the Congress. I was exasperated by the article in the New Statesman and even more by an article in the Sunday Times..."

"It was so nice seeing you, and good of you to come so far. Here is your nail file, I found it in the bathroom long after you had gone. This nonsense about my having said that I am all for continuing flirtations with the Russians..."

"This isn't a letter, to be answered, it is only to beg you never to tell anyone, especially any PEN character (no names, no pack drill), that I am fit to be visited..."

"With awful reluctance I'm writing to ask you to put off your visit for a short time- ten days or two weeks. I am so tired I can hardly bear myself, and I'm going to hide and do nothing..."

"I woke up in the night on the thought that of course the tenor to waite an introduction to your book is Rebecca West, who knows and liked and admired your mother..."

"It seems as if the cold would never end, but surely by the 23rd it will have moved away- a little. Cancel at the last minute if you have to, but come if you can..."

"I can't go to bed without waiting to thank you. I have been in despair, not able to lay hands anywhere on a copy of the book, to replace the one with its ink-covered pages..."

"You are very patient with you aged friend, for which she is grateful. I really have had a rather grimly troubled time for the past several weeks, both personally and family, but chiefly the second..."