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"This is just to say that I posted the typescript of L. and A., with the J.C. Memoir notes, to you yesterday (14th.) I put in as well a hand-written copy of the Songs of Autumn poems..."

"Thanks for yours, and enclosures, which have reached me in Norway. I am getting so much sunshine and sea air that it doesn't seem possible to turn my mind to anything involving writing while here..."

"[...] Thanks for sending the Mason City's librarian's comment of S. and A. It is rather nice, but he is mistaken in thinking that the poem Prayer for the Dead closes the cycle of poems to 'Siegmund'..."

"Your secretary advised me of the arrival of the L. and A. Here I am, back in our rather grey Essex, missing the bright blue skies and sun of the northlands..."

"[...] You and the Research Center must be sure that unpublished work is of any use or value to you before I send it. Herewith a list of titles. A word or two about the things. The play was offered to Heinmann in the 30's..."

"Thanks for your letter of Aug. 30th. This is a late reply, but I have had a lot of type-writing to do in connection with an arrangement with the Essex Poetry and Prose Soc. to read my play Caratacos at one of its sessions..."

"Thank you for kind invitation to take part in the proposed Lawrence fiesta... For me it would be a marvellous experience- not merely interesting. But in April I am involved in a conference here..."

"This is a late acknowledgement of your kind letter of Sept. 26th. But I have sent you, by surface mail, the 3 short stories. Despatched same Oct. 10th. They are morbid stories, morbid in the literal sense..."

"[...] I did look for written manuscripts of the two stories, without success. I probably destroyed them after making fair typescripts, for it certainly did not occur to me then that anyone would ever set any value on them..."

"[...] I have been reading a book I think would have intrigued Lawrence. It is called Immortal Britain, by Alan V. Insole, and is a plea for the proper study of the ancient Celtic mythologies..."