"Prof. Pinto has sent me two photostats of the D.H.L. 'Siegmund' poems in MSS. One of them I remember very well, the other, curiously, only the first line. But the MSS. is not the original writing..."

"[...] I hope your Lawrence bibliography is now off your hands and in those of Rupert Hart Davis. Also that you will really take at least a fortnight's holiday- it doesn't do to run a big overdraft on the bank of energy..."

"[...] Last week I spent in King's College, Cambridge University, taking a week's course of lectures on the Common Market- the burning question of the moment in our political and economic world..."

"I see from my record that I have not written since receiving yours from August 5th. Since then a check voucher has come to hand from your secretary, and I have signed and returned it..."

"This is just to say how do you do, and to ask for three more copies of S. of A. And if my cheque from the Quarterly office has not yet been mailed, will you kindly have the amount debted by the cost of the copies..."

"This thanks you for your nice letter of the 15th. October. I was especially interested to know that you are doing some teaching in English... I understand very well how one may find oneself up against a wall of non-comprhension..."

"This morning I have received from the Texas Press, a royalty statement of Songs of Autumn sales for year ending August 31st. '62, and the cheque herewith enclosed, which, according to our agreement, should have been sent to the fund of the Lawrence Fellowship..."

"Yours of the 21st. arrived yesterday. First here's the reply to your query about the cheque. Mrs. Faye Dockery is quite right; payment for the Quarterly article was mailed in April last..."

"I can now understand why the Esquimaux have no literature. The last thing I want to do, with the temperatures we are getting this month, below zero at Midday, is to sit writing or typing..."

"[...] Have you come upon Phyllis Bentley's novels in your study of modern English authors? She is a contemporary of Priestley, a Yorkshire-woman devoted to the re-creation of the historic North-county and its people..."