"[...] Now about the Light of Common Day typescript. The epilogue is not yet finished, but I have decided to mail the typescript without it, take another fortnight to end it at leisure and then send it..."

"This is only to say that I mailed the typescript of The Light of Common Day to you this morning..."

"[...] First, as you can imagine I was very pleased to hear that Songs of Autumn has received the distinction of being placed among the best 1960 books produced in the South..."

"I now return the excerpt, approved for the Texas Quarterly. There are one or two quite minor corrections. I would not trouble you with this invoice and draft in payment for the 6 copies from S. of A..."

"Many thanks for the University New Bulletin and your letter of the 14th. I am very glad to see the recognition given to your work and Carl's, and my pleasure in S. of A. is thereby much increased..."

"This is the date on which I promised to send off the Epilogue and Notes. But I am still not satisfied with the writing- to get into something like a balanced statement the experience of a lifetime..."

"Thank you for yours of the 1st., and the TLS. cutting. No, I didn't travel to Colchester to look up the notice- perhaps because I knew pretty well what to expect. That notice was not a review of the book..."

"I was indeed hugely pleased to hear that our book has received this second honour from Chicago. This kind reception 'over there' makes the T.L.S. look silly. And it should, of course, help the sales..."

"[...] Under these circumstances Rowland Emett's Quarterly cover design is just the thing- an intriguing fantasy one need make no attempt to interpret at one go. I think the tame dragon gave me the key..."

"I've read the Texas Quarterly practically from cover to cover (poems excepted) and if you knew my normal inability to read modern journals, that statement would seem the highest compliment I could pay its editor..."