"[...] My intuition tells me that the difficulty you have found in writing an Introduction is tied up with the difficulty of persuading yourself and Mr. Wardlaw that this book will sell, though the other one didn't..."

"I think my letter to you of April 30th was the latest. Mrs. Graham Blackstock has told me that the decision of the Press to print L. and A. and the other essay has been made. I hope all goes well now with your Introduction..."

"[...] You will now be on naval service. It doesn't, I fear, bring you into British waters. If that were so, there might be a chance of our meeting. It is 4 years since you were in England..."

"I did not thank you half enough for that wonderful pre-publication edition of the Completed Poems, nor did I make sure, before you left, that you had autographed the copy for me..."

"[...] Since you were here I have looked through the file from which I took the Wells letters, a file in which I have kept for many years letters I thought might have a lasting interest..."

"Your welcome letter of Sept. 17th. was awaiting me when I returned from a short rest holiday at Edstone in Warwickshire. Edstone is a 'health centre' where the run-down folk go for rest and treatment..."

"[...] Some days ago typescript of the three essays came from Mrs. Graham Blackstock, together with a very nice letter and some official forms for me to fill up..."

[...] Now concerning your Introduction, which in its present shape evidently doesn't satisfy you. The trouble is, I am sure, that while following the lines of that one written for Songs of Autumn it has rather the appearance of a revision than of new writing..."

"I am afraid I have got into a bit of a muddle over the several drafts of the Introduction. But the one returned herewith is, I believe, the final one, and incorporates my earlier suggestions..."

"I think the Introduction is now admirable: the final result worth all of your worry and trouble. And I hvae mailed the proofs of the book, corrected, back to Mrs. Graham Blackstone..."