Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

"The enclosed card for you has been sent on here from Chelsea- you are indeed well thought of, as the expression is. We are spending August here, with many, possibly too many American relatives paying us visits..."

"Desmond is here, and Molly comes tomorrow. Desmond says that they are going on to you, and he has his papers with him for your discrimination..."

"I felt very sorry when I saw the notice of Donald's death in the papers this morning- not sorry for him, as his life must have been pretty wretched, and a few more years..."

The Logan Pearsall Smith letters consist of 112 handwritten letters and postcards to Sir Kenneth Clark, (British art historian) and Jane (Clark's wife), Robert Gathorne Hardy, and Robert Trevelyan.

"You were so busy on Friday talking to ladies of title that I had hardly the chance for a word. I know of course, for I have it from your own lips, that you and K. never go out to tea..."

"This is an incredibly non[?] place. Half Spanish, Half African... I have to return to England to-morrow..."

"No, I don't know any early instance of 'dreamy' - it sounds like a 19thc. word, though reveur is used by [Conneille Jenelon?]. But the meaning is not quite the same..."

"I ought to have answered you card before, but I have been in bed with the flu. I'm up again..."

"Thanks for your kind Xmas present. I am not one of those who indulge in exaggerated Hallelujahs at this season..."

"'A savage place! As holy and enchanted as is[?] beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon-lover'..."