"The brain is lying wonderfully fellow!I did bring my typewritter, but haven't used it, and don't expect to. I spend my time sitting on the sands, or visiting..."

"Awfully sorry to be so tiresome and impatient, but my ghastly mother-in-law is writing me gently complaining letters to the effect that she must have her securities back 'so as to set my house in order before I go away'..."

"Thank you for your letter, and the contract. I received Heinmann's proofs by the same post, and am sending one copy back to you under seperate cover. They are very good proofs..."

"Many thanks for your letter- complete with Repulsive New Stamp! No, I shan't be able to let you have any of my book before you go away, but I hope to have it finished by the end of the month..."

"Proofs needed seperate cover. The book would make a lively f[?], and I do hope that perhaps this time we may have some luck with it. I'd accept almost any pittance for the rights!..."

"Herewith the correspondence. It really looks like business, doesn't it? Do you infer that Mr. Robert Garland (our original dramatist) went through the process of being 'hired and fired'?..."

"I enclose a list of corrections to be made in the three other typescripts. A good many others are important, and in any case it is better that the corrections should be made now rather than in proof..."

"Many thanks for the cheque [...] I send you chapters 5,6,7, and 8 of They Found Him Dead. This brings us to halfway, or perhaps a little over. In my mind it is halfway, but one never knows what may happen!..."

"Many thanks for cheque received today [...] By the way, what did you in the end fix up, if anything, with Heinmann about publishing the Talisman Ring in Canada? It is a [?] publication, or what?..."

"I send you back the new script herewith. If you can say so to Mr. Blatt without offense I should like him [?] that I do not care for this version. It differs only slightly from the first, and its differences, which are interpretations, do not seem to be felicitous..."