Box 2

“Thanks so much for your very good letter, which has just arrived. I am answering at once because you wanted to have Philip Smith’s address in time to send him a Christmas greeting...”

“I had a very nice letter from you some time ago, when I wrote to ask you whether the Southern Illinois University Press could use, in its projected reprint of The Trespasser, the section of Neutral Ground upon which it was earlier based...”

“I have your letter posted in Rome and am glad that you are enjoying (I hope) a European tour, and expect to be in London in July. I am at home, and shall probably be here until the end of August...”

“I haven’t any idea when you are due home, but hope the sea voyage will give you a rest and better health. There's nothing like a bad digestion to take the spice and colour from life, and to sap one's energy...”

“Thank you so much for your letter, which quite delighted me. I remember you vividly...” (See also Series 2: A. Literature: “The Dreaming Woman”; Series 3: Photographs)

“We will be very grateful to have the gift of the two notes from Frieda Lawrence to you. Our department will try to make quite special use of them...”

“I have recently had an opportunity to look at your book of poems, Songs of Autumn and the picture of you which appears on the back inside flap...”

“Thank you very much for so promptly sending us the photograph taken in 1912, which I need hardly say I am delighted to have, in order to copy and to make a slide from for use in the Lawrence Collection...”

“I was very pleased to see you on the television programme last night with Malcolm Muggeridge and I thought it the best sequence in the film...”

“I enclose a short piece, which I have been asked to do for the Portway reprint of your novel Neutral Ground, to be announced in the Library Association Record for November...”