“My darling I have a feeling this may cross with one from you, but I want to write and you may wait after all. Are you managing to keep warm in this ‘healthy’ damnable weather?...”

“Your letter wasn’t dull- it was just hard and utterly reasonable. And there are things you don’t understand Helen...”

“My darling, I wonder what sort of a journey you had last night? Did you arrive the same sort of little frozy as last Sunday...”

“Well here I am in Chiswick. I didn’t get home to the flat at all last night. Harry was back until about 11 p.m....”

“Your letter, the only one, because no ordinary post functioning because of the Festa, came after tea...”

"I am sorry not to have been able to let you know before about your Ancient History, but the end of term is a terribly busy time at Oxford, and I am rather swamped..."

"Thank you for your letter of 17 July. It will be excellent if your Ancient History book is ready by the end of November. On the question of terms, I am quite ready to discuss these at this stage..."

"Thank you for your letter of 24 July. I am glad to hear you accept the terms that I suggested for your Ancient History. I quite agree about Time Charts..."

"[...] Your suggestion about the Ur exhibits is excellent, and as it happens we ought to be able to do anything you require of us, as we have a book coming out this Christmas by Mr. Woolley on the Sumerians..."

"[...] I am glad to hear that there is little or no overlapping between Book IV of the Elementary Series and the present book. I don't think there is any need for me to see the manuscript..."