"[...] Under these circumstances Rowland Emett's Quarterly cover design is just the thing- an intriguing fantasy one need make no attempt to interpret at one go. I think the tame dragon gave me the key..."

"I've read the Texas Quarterly practically from cover to cover (poems excepted) and if you knew my normal inability to read modern journals, that statement would seem the highest compliment I could pay its editor..."

"[...] If you are interested in the nuclear disarmament protests over here, you may like to see last Sunday's Observer. I am posting you a copy. I did not take part in Saturday's Whitehall operation..."

"I was glad to have your letter yesterday announcing the safe arrival of the Epilogue and Light of Common Day note book. It seems to take a round three weeks to get an ordinary parcel from Essex to Texas..."

"This is to answer yours of June 2nd. before I start packing for Norway. And here is Norwegian address, in case you have occassion to write while I am over there..."

"This is just to say that I posted the typescript of L. and A., with the J.C. Memoir notes, to you yesterday (14th.) I put in as well a hand-written copy of the Songs of Autumn poems..."

"Thanks for yours, and enclosures, which have reached me in Norway. I am getting so much sunshine and sea air that it doesn't seem possible to turn my mind to anything involving writing while here..."

"[...] Thanks for sending the Mason City's librarian's comment of S. and A. It is rather nice, but he is mistaken in thinking that the poem Prayer for the Dead closes the cycle of poems to 'Siegmund'..."

"Your secretary advised me of the arrival of the L. and A. Here I am, back in our rather grey Essex, missing the bright blue skies and sun of the northlands..."

"[...] You and the Research Center must be sure that unpublished work is of any use or value to you before I send it. Herewith a list of titles. A word or two about the things. The play was offered to Heinmann in the 30's..."