"With all good wishes for Xmas and 1976."

Christmas Greetings

"[...] I thought your novel was extremely fine, a marvellously sensitive study of an individual which also managed to create the surroundings and the the forces of time, place, and society..."

"Thanks for yours of Feb. 8th. received. Also received, today, 1,500 copies of the off-prints of the White Peacock article! What on earth am I to do with them? Naturally, when you offered a few in exchange for my photographs, I thought..."

"Las week I recieved a letter from one Taiji Okada, who described himself as a lecturer in the Kobe Universiry, Japan. His English is extremely quaint, but his enthusiasm for Lawrence genuine..."

"I am rather troubled about my autobiography. Heinemann and Bles have both declined it, and both on commercial grounds. It is a quiet story, without sensational appeal of any kind..."

"[...] Since writing to you last, I have been doing some more serious thinking about the autobiography, and am convinced that it ought to be published in its native land..."

"I have now had a report from the literary critic and agent to whom I sent Not In Entire Forgetfulness, and he confirms my own feeling that this autobiography is too personal for immediate publication..."

"I am very pleased with the shape Songs of Autumn is taking, and with your arrangement of all details. You have interpreted wonderfully my impression of what the book should be..."

"[...] But, most annoyingly, I always overlook, or forget, or leave out, one detail! This time it is a word on Page 55 of the proofs. It is rendered as 'sluggard' (last line but one)..."