"I am well pleased that my letters from Edward Nehls should join the other material relative to his Comprehensive Biography. That was an amazing work. I wish I could find the first letter he wrote to me..."

"[...] It is apparently my fate always to publish a work on Lawrence at the moment when somebody else is doing the same, and naturally the over-worked reviewer casts a more or less casual eye over both..."

"In case you have not seen it I am sending you a review cutting from the New Statesman, which is the very 'superior' Labour Party weekly..."

"[...] It is certainly no fancy of mine that my Social Credit activities- I have edited a small quarterly The Social Credit World for three years- militate against publicity in the literary field..."

"[...] Apropos of the photograph. Some months ago, when I received a request for one from a firm of publishers unknown to me, I naturally asked a fee: if Mr. Moore had written personally I should have sent what he wanted as readily as I supplied him, gratis, with other information..."

"[...] No, I have never heard the name of Kenneth Patchen before. I seldom see American papers, and few writers are well known on both sides of the Atlantic. When writers were comparatively few in number, it was easy to choose the best..."

"Many thanks for yours of Dec. 10th. with enclosure from Mr. Frank Morley, which I am very glad to have seen, and am returning herewith, after making copy of the paragraphs refering to our book..."

"[...] Although I don't expect The Croydon Years to become a best-seller in Britain, it has at least the support of the right kind of reader, and will, I think, be asked for at the libraries during the ensuing months..."

"I'm delighted to hear that you will be having a nice long holiday over here in July and August, and I'm looking forward immensely to meeting Pat and Vicky..."

"W.A. Willox, proprietor and host of Editone[?], is a man of education and wide experience, interested in literature, music and social studies..."