“John Davenport (and Jack Lindsay) suggested I see you: I have a book on Lawrence being printed in N.Y. (out next month) and am doing a further study for my doctorate...”

“It was a great pleasure to meet you, and I want to thank you again for your kindness and hospitality. Candidly, I hadn't expected such natural gaiety and twinkling charm- meeting you as a human being was a fine experience...”

“Thank you very much for sending the material. It is too late to get any of it into the book, but it will help in the thesis...”

“Thank you so much for the most interesting-looking volume, which I’ve had time so far only to glance at: it looks most fascinating and I hope to have some time to read it soon...”

“I am sorry not to have answered your letter earlier, but all the fuss and bother of getting my book out (yesterday) has cut down all other activities...”

“Please forgive me for not answering sooner your very fine letter--completion of the Ph.D. work was exhausting, and the end-of-school-year is likewise, etc...”

“I hope all goes well with you. Me, I’ve been rather knocked out since completing work on my doctorate last spring. Went to Taos in the summer...”

“I’ve been meaning to write for some time to thank you for sending Herbert Read’s review of my book. I thought he spent too much time on my effort to 'place' Lawrence, which I had labelled as an exercise in intellectual playfulness...”

“Thank you very much for your letter, and the cutting, and the pamphlet. The letter I have not yet read, for I read economic theory with some difficulty...”

“I haven’t heard from you in a long while; I hope all goes well with you. Here little has changed, though we have moved our residence. My Lawrence book goes on relentlessly--I’ll be glad when it’s all over...”