"I have read Neutral Ground with great interest. Much as I admire its determination and great sincerity, and much as I enjoy it myself, I feel it is a book for the few, and I cannot predict a sale large enough to warrant out publishing it..."

“[...] Very careful consideration has been given to your work which is very interesting and, in its psychological aspects, especially its exposure of the evils and absurdities of our compulsory education system, are valuable..."

“I wanted to reply so much sooner to your welcome letter of March 21st, BUT it completely vanished! Nowhere could I find it, and didn’t know where to look...”

“Here I am, enjoying ‘bed’ once again, after what I always call an ‘infernal upheaval’ accompanied this time by ‘intestinal orchestration’...”

“What a joy to receive Neutral Ground yesterday, and what a joy it must be to you to have it reprinted at last! I know how frustrating and exasperating it is to know one's books are in demand, and cannot be obtained...”

“Having just finished- with such regret- my third reading of 'Neutral Ground' I must write to you. What a book! And how I lived through it all with you...”

“How delighted, nay enchanted, we were by your wonderful letter received so unexpectedly at 6 p.m. yesterday, 21st - just as Ann and I were having a final practice of the ‘Enigma’...”

“Your welcome letter, accompanying the Douglas booklet, arrived yesterday evening. So many thanks for both. I have had no opportunity even to glance as yet at the booklet...”

“I enclose a short piece, which I have been asked to do for the Portway reprint of your novel Neutral Ground, to be announced in the Library Association Record for November...”

“I have recently had an opportunity to look at your book of poems, Songs of Autumn and the picture of you which appears on the back inside flap...”