"I can now understand why the Esquimaux have no literature. The last thing I want to do, with the temperatures we are getting this month, below zero at Midday, is to sit writing or typing..."

"[...] Have you come upon Phyllis Bentley's novels in your study of modern English authors? She is a contemporary of Priestley, a Yorkshire-woman devoted to the re-creation of the historic North-county and its people..."

"[...] It is a bit amusing that you should now be collaborating with Harry T. Moore, because, (but this is strictly off the record) the beginning of my correspondence with your Research Center somehow brought to an end a correspondence lasting several years which I had had with him..."

"[...] In the light of your Bibliography I have been looking at my copies of The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers, and the Love Poems and Others collection of 1912. That of The Trespasser was sent to me in May 1912..."

"[...] Concerning my copy of The Trespasser- it answers exactly to your description, except perhaps that the publisher's device appears on the title page as well as on the back cover..."

"How very nice of you to send me those Taos photographs. Of course I should like to keep them- they will be interesting to many people over here, and if you have copies or have kept the films I certainly won't send them back..."

"Many thanks for yours of Oct. 23rd. I'm very pleased that Mr. Frank Wardlaw and Mrs. Graham Blackstock are both with you in wanting to re-publish my two Lawrence books in one volume..."

"I have just posted to you, by surface mail, my book of press cuttings- reviews of my books- thinking that Mr. Frank Wardlaw may be interested in seeing what British reviews thought of L. and A. and the J.C. Memoir..."

"Very many thanks for copy of the Autobiographical Fragment. I have never seen it before, or any reference to it, other than the one in your Bibliography, which tells me that the holograph MS. is in the University of California, together with a typescript..."

"[...] I have heard nothing yet from Mr. Frank Wardlaw about the 'omnibus' reprint, but the holidays may be blamed for the delay. Perhaps you would ring him up and find out whether he has really decided to publish it..."