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Steep, Petersfield. - Glad that Julian is well again and enjoying school; looks forward to seeing him when able to visit and thanks Trevelyan for suggesting it. Agrees about [Lascelles] Abercrombie; a friend who knows "The End of the World" (which Thomas remembers Trevelyan discussing) says that it will be a 'triumph' for Abercrombie, and Thomas hopes it will. Asks if he spoke to Trevelyan about [W. H. Hudson's] "The Purple Land [that England Lost]": would be glad to have been the cause of the 'delight' he must have had; he could try "Green Mansions" now. Pleased to hear Trevelyan can agree about [Walter] Pater: people thought he 'sat down deliberately to disparage' Pater when in fact he was an 'old admirer & only found on studying him for the purposes of the book [his "Walter Pater: A Critical Study"] how much' he could not admire. Would like five years free of reading or writing about books. Is going to Carmarthenshire for a couple of weeks after Easter with his two elder children; they will keep him 'free from books'.

Newspaper cuttings with reviews, many sent to Trevelyan by the press cuttings agency Romeike & Curtice; some duplicates. From: the "Athenaeum"; "Scotsman"; "Manchester Guardian"; "Star"; "Times Literary Supplement"; "Times"; "Glasgow Herald"; "Morning Post"; "Daily News & Leader"; "Literary World"; "Sunday Times"; "Poetry Review"; "Musical Standard"; "J. P.'s Weekly". Also included: a cutting from the "Age" [Melbourne, Australia], entitled "War on Books" which discusses the Swedish wood pulp embargo and fears this has caused about book production, with a quote from the "New Parsifal". Also: two pages from the "New Statesman", 18 July 1914, with part of an article about Chinese poetry by Desmond MacCarthy, a poem by Walter de la Mare, an article by W. H. Hudson on "The Strenuous Mole"; a piece about the Royal Academy by Randall Davies and "Books in General" by Solomon Eagle [J. C. Squire]

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.