"I am sorry not to have written you the promised letter for Miss Vosper till now, but my mother has had a second attack- not a very serious one this time- and in the [?] of the moment I forgot about the Vosper affair..."

"In turning out my desk I came across a stash of cuttings. Some I tore up; the others, Dear Norah, I send to you..."

"Ronald has perused the play, and doesn't like it. He says he has cut out the wit and added nothing to replace it. But we can't very well tell his sister that!..."

"His lordship, on the day of the 18th June, went into action mounted on a hollow-backed horse of little b[?] of few manners, and wore a blue frock coat, overbreaches, and probably pantaloons, of unidentified colour..."

"I have left the enclosed open for your perusal. I think it covers the ground. The more I think the matter over the more I suspect that Miss Vosper too thinks the play poor..."

"I find I don't agree with you at all about answering the tobacconist's effusion. I can see not the slightest reason for encouraging her. I don't write for that kind of oppression[?], after all, and if she chooses..."

"I have read Evans's letter three times, and each time I read it it annoys me more. I want certain things quite definitely brought to his intelligence. The first point I wish to make is that during the many years of my having been with the firm..."

"Whoopee! I've got it at last, and it is a peach! [...] Forgive, Brave Dead! It comes out of that [?] Scott poem, the Field of Waterloo, and I propose to give the quotation..."

"I was extremely pleased to find, per[?] my conversation with you this morning that Mr. Ferre Reeves is inclined to take this book of mine seriously. I hope you will tell him that his choice of title coinsides precisely with my preference!..."