Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Much obliged for the 'Bird book' ["The Bird in Song", edited by Robert Sickert"], which is a 'delightful collection'; has read Robert's poem ["The Lady's Bat"] with 'very great' pleasure, as well as the piece of Courthope's ["The Paradise of Birds"], Logan's "Cuckoo". Feels that 'Keats's unrhymed sonnet' is an omission; agrees that the letter to [John Hamilton] Reynolds is a 'charming effusion"; brief discussion of Keats. They have [E. V. Lucas and C. L. Graves's] "Signs of the Times" and have read it aloud; it is 'capital fun'. Likes to think of Bessie's sister being with her, and that Caroline is coming to visit. His recent work on the last two chapters of his book ["The American Revolution"] has been 'like beginning a new book', but he has 'got into it now'.
Methuen & Co Ltd Publishers - Sends a book they have just published which will interest him.
36 Essex Street, Strand - Subscribes, is sorry for the delay; will be happy to sign whatever paper she sends.
36, Essex Street, Strand - The book has not arrived, and he is leaving tomorrow for France 'to do nothing for a month'.
3, Roberts Mews, Lowndes Place, S.W.1. - Thanks her for the gift of the most human book on the ancients he has yet read.
31 Redington Road, Hampstead, N.W.3. - Glad to receive Bob's book "Windfalls" yesterday: it went to Cornwall and back first, since [her son] Mike is there with his family and his maid did not know it was for Catherine. Has enjoyed all she has read of it so far 'enormously'; doesn't think she has read Bob's prose before. Lascelles would have liked it very much. Thinks Bob should write much more of the same, books such as those written by [W. H.?] Hudson, [Richard?] Jefferies or E. V. Lucas.: he has an 'enormous range of learning' and the ability to make the 'tiniest of nature's happenings seem exciting and important', while everything he says about beauty needs to be repeated nowadays. Is finding the heat very difficult; is changing her room to one on the first floor easier to entertain people and so hopes to contact Mr Badger [?] soon. Hopes Bessie is not too affected by the heat; remembers she does not like it much.
Typescript and two carbon copies of an essay about Frazer's 'Sir Roger de Coverley'.