"Thank you for your very nice letter. I was so pleased that you and Vicki were able to spend that 6th of July with me- it was most enjoyable. I wonder if you still love homely Essex..."

"How very nice of you to take all these photographs of the University especially for me! They're delightful, and now I really feel at home anywhere in the campus just as you suggested..."

"This is to bring Christmas greetings and the hope that every day you are feeling a little better. Getting fit again after an operation is generally a slow process..."

"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."