Feb 9 Thursday.

X Minorca captured
Went over the seven new poems since Collected Poems and made several changes.
Dictionary with Alan: resorting groups at a suggestion of Laura's.
Laura working concentratedly all day on a difficult poem: a lesson starting with stars.1
Honor explains her long silence: letter went astray and is having a baby in July in spite of recent miscarriage.
Laura finished poem at 2 am; and also an epitaph on Yeats2.

Editorial Notes

1KG indicates that "A Lesson Starting With Stars" is the poem's title, but it has not been identified in Riding's published works. eds.
2the Epitaph was unpublished; see Friedmann 280 eds.