Box 1

"Thank you for writing. As soon as I finish a rather difficult task I shall read Rosenberg's book. I hope it is good, or good enough. Dorothy Richardson stands like a smiling ghost..."

"I'm glad you had a good time in Vienna, it's a city I love, even though it has changed so much since we went first in 1930, when it was poor and simple. I shall always like it- and shall never see it again..."

"You don't know how tired I am. It closed down on me suddenly this past week or ten days, like a cold heavy weight. If I had been planning to come up Thursday to see you, only you, I'd have come..."

"I can't. Your letter, so good, so kind, so wise, so like you, makes me cry. You are in every way right. Being too much, far too much of a coward, to kill myself, I try to die in another way..."

"I came back from Scotland two days ago, more exhausted than I have ever been in my foolish life. I have picked your letter from the incredible heap on my table..."

"How splended to get a letter from you, even in so intimidating an envelope. I think of you so often. I'm glad you went to Vienna. I love that city, I'll never see it again, but I've been very happy there..."

"It was no[sic] nice to see you, and good of you, and like you, to spare me time. And thank you for telling me about Ronald Boswell. It would be 1920 when Guy worked with him at Werner Lauries..."

"Thank you so much for letting me see Ronnie Boswell's letter. I would very much like to meet him and his wife- more especially when I'd see you at the same time..."

"Thank you, very much. You'll be bored with me if I go on telling you how kind you are and what your kindness means to me, please just believe in the things I don't say..."

"Thank you very much for the Sandringham card. Shall I come up on Thursday 26th? I'll only stay one day. London is a fatal place to come to, there are many things I'll be tempted to try..."