"Mr. Collins has sent on to me your two specimen chapters, which I have read and liked very much..."

“[...] I am returning Muriel's letter to you, but I have taken the liberty, (which I hope you will forgive), of making a copy of it and showing it to my old friend John Davenport..."

"It was good of you to send me your Ancient Peoples and I am sorry you didn't work [?], but perhaps you will, one day when we meet again..."

"[...] I have looked at the reports on your autobiography and I am afraid they are not sufficiently enthusiastic to warrant our making an offer for the book..."

"Many thanks for your letter of 3rd January. Of course you may have our permission to quote from Lawrence's White Peacock, and I wish you every success with the book."

"In Nov. 1950 Mr. Dwye Evans returned the MSS. of my autobiography, with the comment: 'It is clear that the Lawrence material is of great interest, but not sufficiently so to carry the whole book'..."

"Thank you for your letter of 26th February. Mr. W.B. Todd describes himself as the Director, 'Humanities Research Centre', University of Texas, and in writing to me he linked your article..."

“Very many thanks for 'Modern Peoples'. I have as yet only dipped into it, but I can already admire the skill with which you have got essentials into so interesting and smooth-flowing a narrative, with here and there such vivid detail...”

“Thank you for your letter enclosing cheque for 18/-. I don’t see at all why you should buy the broken set of the Centenary Edition...”

"[...] 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..."