Grand Hotel, La Croix de Cavalaire, Var, France. - Has so far been 'very lucky' with the weather; this is a 'beautiful place', he thinks more so than 'most better known places on the Riviera'. The hotel is 'fairly comfortable', and though large, does not… read more
Laity Water, Torrington. - Thanks Bob for sending a second copy [of "From the Shiffolds", see 17/203]; has two friends he wants to lend it to 'in succession'. Bob is right to say it is a 'difficult time to feel creative in'; human live is a 'frightful… read more
Initially entitled 'Nietszche the Philologist'; this typescript heading is crossed through and replaced with 'Fair and Dark: Is there a dominant type?'. Finally, 'Pre' is added in red pen to make 'Predominant'.
Ryton, Dymock, Glos. - Thanks Bob for the "Operatic Fable" ["The New Parsifal "]; has read and enjoyed it again, finding it a 'very admirably constructed joke.. with a commendable moral', though he thinks Bob has been a 'trifle unfair to Goethe and… read more
3, Hare Court, Inner Temple. - Begins the letter in the National Liberal Club near Trafalgar Square, where he will soon go to an 'anti-jingo' meeting. Expects this will not be a big affair, as 'pacific people are only too few'; the 'self-satisfied Anglo-… read more