"Forgive me that I am so late in acknowledging your good Christmas wishes and bright card! But I am sure you will, knowing the impossibility of clearing off one's Christmas debts of thanks before Twelfth Night ends the festival..."

"Perhaps you are now back in Cambridge, and have been joined by the family for the rest of your time over here. I don't know the date of your return home, but in [?] of it, and also as you have been good enough to take over the care of my books..."

"What did you think of our Jubilee Festival week? A welcome change, even though probably a brief one, from the present tendency to concentrate the public mind on the hideous and criminal aspect of the 'news'..."

"The poem by Geoffery Faber is a delight and a reassurance that real poetry is still alive..."

"I think you know the Mediterranean- does this bring back any memories? I am having a gorgeous time."

"The old fort, Oslo, now a museum and public garden. Autumn [?] pleasantly in S. Norway, very much as in New Mexico..."

"Wednesday 21st convenient. H.C."