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Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford. - Thanks Trevelyan for his 'kind Christmas gift' [this year's "From the Shiffolds"?]. Hopes to see him when he returns from London. Adds a postscript asking if Trevelyan knows [Lacy?] Collison-Morley, an 'elderly man learned in Italian' whom Alston would like to bring for a visit if Trevelyan is 'agreeable'.

Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford. - Has now read Trevelyan's poems, and likes them very much; regrets that he has 'no classical scholarship', but gets 'something of those "dark grandeurs"' from Trevelyan's verses. They sometimes remind him of 'translations from Chinese': he likes their 'simple austerity'. The only writing he does is in prose: 'very poorly', he expects.

Compton. - Thanks Trevelyan for his Christmas 'card' ["From the Shiffolds"]; regrets that he is not a classical scholar, but 'sympathises[s]' with the first poem and has 'the same experience in paintings'. Names two other poems he likes.Thinks it was Trevelyan's brother [George] who 'called the Industrial Revolution our greatest disaster'.

The Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford. - Thanks Trevelyan for the 'charming present' of his poems. Had hoped to come and visit this summer, when he had petrol, but has been first in hospital, then kept a home, with 'a fractured leg & other minor injuries'.