"Nice one, this [...] If I do one a month could you sell them?"

"No, carry on. No sense in screwing them up on this book. Very busy on my last 30,000 words. This is a very long book!"

"Entry should read: These Old Shades; Publications: The Black Moth; Devil's Club; The Conquerer..."

"Hello, are you back again? Did you enjoy the Wye[?] Valley? [...] Well, what a price my serial story? I may as well tell you (since I feel no one else will) that it's developing into a remarkably lieu effort..."

"I like this very much- tell H. and S. so, will you? In great [?], so excuse paper and pencil scrawl."

"[...] enchanting story, and would make a charming film, given a director as clever as the author- and only given that!..."

"I am terribly sorry to hear from Miss Perriam that you have had to have an operation, and such a serious one, too. I felt that I must write to you and tell you how very, very sorry I am..."

"I know you'll be interested to hear my latest news, so I am writing to tell you that I'm going to be a grass widow next Friday. Ronald has got a job with the Gerogian Manganese Company, and sails for Russia on the 22nd..."

"If you want to meet Mr. A.D. Wykes at anytime I think it would be wisdon on your part if you refrained from mentioning my name. You never know; and I should hate to think I was the cause of your death..."

"I think that either you are cleverer know you know at conceiling your worries, or that I am an imperceptive woman, for I had no suspicion that anything was on your mind..."