Admiralty, Whitehall. - Thanks Bob for sending back the cheque [share of the profits from "Georgian Poetry", see 15/307]; there will soon. There will soon be more profits to divide, so it can go into that pot. Has had a 'delightful letter' from [Gordon] Bottomley - asks Bob if Bottomley could not be 'got South before October' - who 'writes hopefully about finishing his play ["King Lear's Wife"?]. Is 'immensely delighted' with [James Elroy] Flecker's new book, "The Golden Journey to Samarkand", which Bob must get at once if he has not yet; there are also some 'delicious things' in [Walter] de la Mare's "Peacock Pie". W. H. Davies is 'collecting autographs to stick in his copy of G[eorgian] P[oetry]'; asks if Bob could send his and gives Davies's address.
The Royal Society of Literature, 2 Bloomsbury Square , London, W.C.1. - Thanks Trevelyan for "From the Shiffolds"; when she told him 'not to forget "our" Christmas card', she meant the Society's library not for herself. Now she is 'transgressing' her own rules about rejecting 'perquisites' connected with her position [as Secretary] since '[n]othing will induce' her to give her copy, with Trevelyan's inscription, to the Library or anyone else. Mentions poems she likes; '"Birds of the Air" needed saying'. Quotes [James Elroy] Flecker's "Hassan" on coincidence, as when Trevelyan read "Spectacles" she remembered a 'recent ridiculous occurrence'. Her friend Joseph Bard is a fellow of the Society, and when they lunched recently at the Café Royal he noticed Mrs A. P. Herbert whom he said was sitting next to the 'bespectacled man', but Rudston Brown heard this as 'respectable'. Hopes that Trevelyan reached home after his 'generous entertainment' of the society at a reasonable time and not too cold.