"Exactly one week ago, at Villejos, I was looking through the Folio Society catalogue and choosing four books. I arrive to find a catalogue from the Folio Society and a regret, for next year's or quarter's Folio, to choose from four books and do it in 100 words: they will pay me by giving me the four books I choose..."

"A week ago, lover, we were getting ready to go to the Biela. A day of grief for you today, the melancholy feeling that I can't reach out and touch you or go out into the streets with you. So odd, but in retrospect the days at La Cumbre[?] are all sunny, and we [?] the bus to the town and stop and drink in the little bar..."

"I asked Francis to send you the magazines with the Malik. I wonder whether you get them - I hope they were sent by air mail..."

"Margaret with the wounded air, from Vidia with the shrunken god: I rushed off a little note to you with a photo-copy of the Conrad some days ago, and didnt[sic] really acknowledge your letter. I am amazed you didn't know that Finita and Josefina were lovers; I would have thought that was obvious, so obvious from appearances, from Finita's especially..."

"Lover, fulfilment, my miracle (because it is also yours), Margaret: I loved [making it?] to you yesterday (no, not yesterday, today, just two hours ago_. I telephoned to hear you say that you loved me and to tell you that I love you; and to be in touch. I am very tired now, so you must forgive me talking uncertainly..."

"This has been my first letter to you for five and a half years. I write it to let you know that I am quite lost without you (I feel less myself); that I realize now that you have given me an idea of myself that I need and that I have been thinking in the last two months of making the big step and legitimizing the whole thing..."

"I was sick about the pearl necklace; and am even sicker thinking about the coon who stole it."

"Night after night I compare these hymns to you; and I know that in the morning the words will mock me, reminding me of what I haven't had. I will come to you again and soon; you will receive me. You will lie beneath me; I will enter you on that ridge inside your red moist mouth down below..."

"You will be thoroughly whipped if you think any disloyal thoughts - whipped all over your lovely white arse"

"For Margaret - after forty years, Vido. bought in December 72; sent in May 73."