"With all good wishes for Xmas and 1976."

Christmas Greetings

"With reference to D.H. Lawrence: the Croydon Years. 'As a good piece of book production it is a pleasure, but it is the text I am especially referring to, as having moved me profoundly...'"

"Miss Corke has made the recording this morning and is anxious that you should get it before you leave England. She has not yet fully recovered from her recent indisposition and will write to you later."

"[...] I thought your novel was extremely fine, a marvellously sensitive study of an individual which also managed to create the surroundings and the the forces of time, place, and society..."

"Thanks for yours of Feb. 8th. received. Also received, today, 1,500 copies of the off-prints of the White Peacock article! What on earth am I to do with them? Naturally, when you offered a few in exchange for my photographs, I thought..."

"Las week I recieved a letter from one Taiji Okada, who described himself as a lecturer in the Kobe Universiry, Japan. His English is extremely quaint, but his enthusiasm for Lawrence genuine..."

"I am rather troubled about my autobiography. Heinemann and Bles have both declined it, and both on commercial grounds. It is a quiet story, without sensational appeal of any kind..."

"[...] Since writing to you last, I have been doing some more serious thinking about the autobiography, and am convinced that it ought to be published in its native land..."

"I have now had a report from the literary critic and agent to whom I sent Not In Entire Forgetfulness, and he confirms my own feeling that this autobiography is too personal for immediate publication..."