Box 2

This collection is comprised of Helen Corke's personal library, her papers and manuscripts.

This collection is comprised of Helen Corke's personal library, her papers and manuscripts.

P.E. N. English Centre Annual Awards information. (See also Series 3: Photographs: 1946 International P.E.N. Congress)

“Your letter was a very pleasant thing to drop on me out of the blue fall sky. I’d love to squabble with you occasionally on minor points but fear an all-too similar point of view on vital ones...”

“Thank you for allowing Elizabeth to persuade you to let me see your article on The White Peacock. I do 'appreciate' (as we say in this country) the honour...”

“I felt honoured as well as delighted the other day when I opened the mysterious O.U.P. package and found Ancient Peoples...”

“At last--I can try, at last, to tell you how jolly it is to have Ancient Peoples telling me, so charmingly, many things that I’ve always wanted to know...”

“I’m shocked to see that your letter is dated April and it is now June, but I hear of you so often that I forget we have not been talking to each other directly...”

“You do [?] proud, much too proud. It’s very jolly to hear that it passed the test of being spoken aloud without utter disaster...”

“I felt very honored I receive a copy of Lawrence and Apocalypse from you, and have delayed writing until I could find opportunity to give it the attention it deserves...”