Goodacre, Selwyn Hugh, 1940-

"Dear Julia, I do hope the package got to you in time for the meeting with the publisher. I must apologise for my rather incoherent letter that accompanied it - but I wrote it at about 1 am after we had had a dinner party - I knew I had to do it then, as I was due at Surgery at 9 in the morning, and had to have it ready for the post before that..."

Letter may be incomplete, as Selwyn Goodacre was consistent about signing the bottom of his correspondence, and this does not contain a signature.

"Dear Dr Briggs, Many thanks for your card. It was a great delight to meet yo in June, and I am only glad that I was able to be of some help. As promised I can now enclose my copy of Bunny Tales, for you to borrow for a while. There is no rush at all for its return. I have had a slide made of it for my talk at the Beatrix Potter conference this week-end, so it is now 'free'!..."

"Dear Julia, Many thanks for your letter. I much look forward to coming down to Oxford on Friday. I'll let you know about my wife Janet as soon as possible, it depends a bit on what Mark wants to do, and Alice Society punts down the river and so on! The list looks fine. My only comments are really just points of 'tidying up', so I'll list them here:..."

Note written on a scrap of paper.