Pièce 74 - Letter from Catherine Abercrombie to R. C. Trevelyan

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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.