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"I'm so glad you wrote me as it goaded me into doing what I've been putting off for a few weeks, namely jog the Reading University into paying our bill! I wrote at once and this morning their cheque arrived..."

"I'm ashamed to find how long I have kept your list without replying. It arrived just as I had volunteered to do some archaeological work which on top of my little book business, has filled up my time..."

"[...] Of course I would be very pleased to act in the manner you suggest about your books but don't you think that you should select someone much younger? After all I shall be 80 in just two years and a half!..."

"[...] I am writing now because it is necessary for me to make a new will, circumstances having put my present one out of date. My executors will want me to dispose of my books, and I have thought that perhaps you would allow me to leave them your name..."

"The copy of 'Songs of Autumn' arrived with pin-point timing on Christmas morning, almost the only thing that was received that day. I am delighted to have it and must thank you very much for your kindness in sending it to me..."

"Many thanks for your letter of Aug. 7th re your J.C. Memoir. I certainly agree that a little volume- I picture something slim but nicely printed in attractive stiff card cover selling at say 7/6 would go very well indeed..."

"[...] I have looked up the 'Al' files and theres a lot of it. I shall have to spend one or two evenings going through it as I don't think I can send everything to you..."

"[...] About the revisions in the text of the Home-Builders. You tell me that the translation is in the hands of the printers; that means, I take it, that I shall receive from Messrs. Fabricius and Sonners a typed list or the proposed alterations..."

"At last I can begin my letter about the proposed alterations, which have already been mentioned so long ago and perhaps awaited by you even a fortnight ago. I shall look up Dosent Steen's address and write it down at the end of the letter..."

"Here are my comments upon the recommendations made by you and Prof. Steen. In the majority of instances I am in complete agreement as to the points suggested..."