Box 1

"I have no words for Jonathan's folly and ignorance. He is an idiot, a crass idiot. He has lost a better novel than he will have on his lists for this many a year..."

"I am so glad you will both come on the 9th, so very glad. I have written to ask Veronica Wedgewood to join us for lunch. It is easy to find the Ivy. If you walk up Shaftesbury Avenue..."

"I have been reading- and re-reading- "La Patrie Interieure" all the week. More than once I turned back incredulously to look at the date at which the book was published- 1928..."

"I have made what I think is a happy discovery, and shall be sad if you do not think so too. It is this, that the London Overseas section of the W.V.S. is holding a stock of new clothes from America..."

"Please forgive me that I write in very great haste. I have just come home from seeing Constable's- that is, Helen Waddell- and have a few minutes to catch the post..."

"I return "La Veritable Tragedie de Romeo et Juliette" with the sorrowful conviction that there is no room on the wretched English stage for this witty charming profoundly wise play..."

"It made me happy this morning to see your writing on an envelope. I have thought so often of you both- and blamed myself for for a shameful laziness..."

"Your letter makes me think how idiotic that I should write an account of my unspectacular life seeing that you have not written an account of yours, which would be worth much more..."

"I see that we share the same feeling about Miron Grindea, a mixture of affection and terror. I didn't see the ADAM 1966(7) issue in which you preforce collaborated..."

"How good of you to send me this report on Delves House. I was a little more than half serious when I asked you about it. I'd think I have too much money in my hands at this moment..."