Box 2

"[...] Where is my contract? (In case it is really lost I am enclosing another copy). Because your work on the book of poems cannot proceed until I have, and the University has, a signed copy..."

"[...] First about the photograph. I am not very enthusiastic about the use of one, believing that most readers of any imagination- and who cares for those without it- prefer their own visual image of an author..."

"[...] I have read the Texas Quarterly with great interest. My knowledge of Mexico and its people, which was lamentably small, has been much increased thereby. By all appearances (photographic) a people marked by the long tragedy of their history..."

"The prints of the two photographs are being despatched[sic] to you by the photographer today..."

"Everything tends to speed up- Time included. The weeks fly. I see that at least seven have passed since I wrote you to announce the dispatch of the reprints of the two old photos..."

"I am afraid you will think I have cut your note about badly. You were good enough to send me the original some months ago for comment- and if I returned it as it appears on the galley I deserve your censure..."

"[...] First let me thank you for the copy of the Dec. Texas Quarterly, wherein, in excellent company, my White Peacock article appears in beautiful print..."

"Thank you for your long letter of Jan. 11th., and also for the programme, just arrived, of the Garnett family Exhibition at the University... I never met Edward Garnett. DHL talked much about him during the autumn of 1911..."