Enclosure – Letter to RG from LR in Spanish (translated by William Graves) My much appreciated and loved Roberto

Here are various fruits. The strawberries go well with the cheese Gervais WG that Alix will bring – I think a lot about you – may all go well. until tomorrow – I will [shall] come in the afternoon, early.

Your friend of the soul[bosom friend] Laura

July 1 Thursday

Reading Belisarius The Life of Belisarius by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope. London: J. Murray, 1829. eds., also Manzwaring & Dobrée's Floating Republic The Floating Republic by G.E. Manwaring & Bonamy Dobrée. London: G. Bles, 1935. eds..

Laura in morning: had lunched with Mother & explained things yesterday.

Alan with custard & chicken breast from Laura: & news of Mrs Heine & Mrs Karl Marx.I was to write their biographies [KG]. When I wasn't typing, that is... KG

Jenny with pink & blue cornflowers & story of a blow from a fall which makes it advisable for her to leave work.

Sally with tales of Charles' blackmail on Diana & her own firm attitude; & help for Belisarius which is her ex-period.

Lines on a florist's rose.

July 2 Friday.

Two more drafts of Florist Rose.

Laura with news that O.K. is agreeable to us taking on those books with Cassell.

Flowers from Margaret.

Karl with talk about his researches into Mrs Heine.

A.G., with Clarissa for a moment, & paper bag presents of oatcake, salt butter, bananas, tomatoes, a Christening (German) silver spoon of mine, & two gold rings – my old eagle ring, & a signet ring of my paternal grandfather mitre & initials C.L. (Charles Limericki.e. Bishop of Limerick KG) on a garnet. Afraid a male Graves will be born to Philip & Kitty which will demote David from his heir-presumptivity of the family.

July 3 Saturday

Very hot weather indeed.

Reading L.H.'s Ghost of Napoleon The Ghost of Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1933. eds. & Belisarius The Life of Belisarius by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope. London: J. Murray, 1829. eds..

Laura came from Watt's: he had thought he could 'place' most of our Seizin books.

Then Mother for 2 hours talking.

Then Harry & Alix. Decision to buy a car discussed.

Letter to Watt about contract

July 4 Sunday.

A.G. came for a goodbye in the morning.

I wrote a long letter to L.H. about Ghost of Napoleon The Ghost of Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1933. eds., with remarks on right & wrong use of metaphor, rewriting a metaphorical passage in unmetaphorical language.

Laura, with contentment about Seizin plans now.

Karl with a book to read about Turkey: Allah Dethroned Allah Dethroned by Lilo Linke. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1937. eds..

I got up for the first time. Pins & needles in my feet, aches in my legs.

First draft of a poem To break Delight.published as "To Challenge Delight"? DW; eds.

Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves

Arundale, St. Christopher Letchworth, Herts.

July 2 nd , 1937 Dear Robert,

Thank you so much for your coins, they were very interesting indeed. I am so sorry for not writing to you before, but circumstances keep occurring which hindered me, and I am going to make this letter as long as possible, especially when you are in bed.

Your letter was very welcoming and I have still got it in my locker I think.

I am in bed too, for the second time, but I am afraid that you are much worse off than I am.

There is an examination for me at the end of this term and I hope I will go through it.

Nancy, Geoffrey, David, Catherine and I are going to camp in the holidays for a fortnight immediately after school.

figure: drawing of a horse

There is some work to do even in bed, because I want to get them done before next week.

It is very sad about your throat operation and I hope you will get better soon and I should very much like to stay with you at Ewhurst, especially with Jenny, David and Catherine.

I have only a bad cough and I was going to play in the 2 nd eleven tomorrow in an away match.

Once I had to retire as a batsman in a game of cricket and once I made the most runs in another.

My two faults at my lessons are that I cannot catch up finishing my essays easily and that I giggle with my friend Merril Hart.

Anyway, I am said to be the only perfect pupil at French Grammar in my group of 11, and some are some years older than I am!

However, I have to keep looking up the vocabulary when I read a French book, as I don't know all the words yet.

I like geometry very much but I am not good at sums, well, I mean that I am quite ignorant of some and forget their methods of calculating. Catherine could have helped me simply. The mathematics teacher told one of her pupils to teach me a sum about interest and %, but I could not understand him because he just dashed away muttering the numbers, and practically never told me how and why and what to do and so on.

Geograph Geography is all very well but the group learned last term something which I did not know about Australiasia Australasia and the table at which I sit is usaully usually far away from the teacher (we just bag our tables, by putting our books on them and also on those for our friends).

At craft I am quite keen on it but I was very bad at my toast rack and delayed myself on making it until it got lost. Then yesterday I began again with fresh hope and zeal and I got much further in time, about some minutes compared with some days.

I am hoping to make a kite, but there is no one who is keen enough (a boy, I want) to help and share in it.

Just now another letter came in from you by MerrilSam's friend Merril Hart? See page 4 of this letter. eds and I was ever so pleased when I recognised your writing on the envelope.

It must have been awful not to have eaten all that week but I am glad that you have passed it.

It is certainly good news about your friend Gelat being free from prison again.

I wonder what its like in a prison. I expect that everything would be boring, and little of nature, horrid food, and hard-working. Still, he's out, and that's what matters.

I am helping to build a pavillion for the sportsground. We are making the framework for the present.

We are going to have a cinema for our school (perhaps because of the school film-education method campaign) and also a swimming bath, (perhaps you have already heard of it).

I hope you will all be very happy in your new home (is your Majorcan home a permanent one?) which you call Ewhurst (nice name, I think).

Robert and Laura and Karl, if possible, do come and see me, as I really feel rather lonely and I am longing to show you around this really big school and so on.

If you will come, please come on a Saturday, because I find Sundays rather dull and very little people about but tell me first won't you? – because I may be away at camp or things like that.

Nancy cannot come because she is too busy.

I wish I could have seen the Royal Air Display at Hendon, as I am so very keen on aero- planes, you know.

I want to be an air pilot and get some money for Nancy so that she can cover our family costs and so on.

I want to fly all kinds of air-craft, right from a small biplane to the Ensign monoplanes, if ever I do get a chance.

My handicap is my deafness, so I could not hear very well through wireless.

If I want to be trained I must be-

figure: two planes sketched in top margin

gin my training at about over 15 or at 17 years of age.

All the same, I'll write some books, I hope, after your proffesion profession .

I am good at chemistry, I find, and enjoy myself very much writing about the interesting experiments as much as seeing them.

Please give my love to Laura and Karl and be happy and cheerful!!!!

figure: wiggly exclamation point

I shall see you again, with much love from XXX SAM XXX

July 5 Monday.

A.G. again came to say goodbye. Gave me £1 for my birthday, apples, bananas.

Laura did not come in the morning.

I got up & walked about painfully. My wound is all but healed.

A 12 pp pages letter from Sam: answered in 12 foolscap pp pages .

Five more drafts of To Break Delight which I am not sure about.

Reading the Turkey book Allah Dethroned by Lilo Linke. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1937. eds.: I don't like these provocatively virtuous travellers.

Pannett gave me permission to go tomorrow: a week under usual time.

Alan & Beryl came.

Dick & Clarissa came.

Laura & Honor.

Karl twice.

Wrote to Home Office for extension of his permission to stay.

July 6 Tuesday

* Leave hospital. The four nurses Russell, Davies, Lloyd & Johnson (night nurse) could not have been nicer to me. I have enjoyed every hour almost of hospital.

Alan fetched me, to a frantic scene of packing and telephoning at 5 Nottingham St.

The care was bought paid for and brought.

I cou lay on the sofa & wrote letters for Laura, who was over-tired.

Business of getting Mrs. Mockler a job, phoning to answers of a Lady recomends advt. advertisement in Times.

July 7th Wednesday

Laura was up to 1 oclock packing; & more in the morning.

Left in the new car for Ewhurst where we arrived at 3.30.

Reorganizing furniture etc.

I could not help much.

The house is not so depressing as Laura had described it as being. The garden is large & with a good lawn, & rough bit at the end with a huge oak and a lean-to suitable for camping under.

July 8 Thursday

I was up the whole day & even went for a 20 minutes walk with Laura to the village & back to look for a maid.

Harry, Laura, Alix went to Guildford in a car & brought 2 tables for 22/6d22 shillings, sixpence eds. the pair & jams from a retired Colonel who specializes in them at Ewhurst. I stayed at home.

Mr. Burt, the gardener, is an ex-railwayman & a cyclist (51 years in the railway, now 67).

Luggage came: unpacking.

Letters: books to nurses at St. Mary's.

Finished Mahon's Belisarius The Life of Belisarius by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope. London: J. Murray, 1829. eds..

Govt Government success at Brunete. All sorts of negotiations going on, one feels, behind the scenes in Spain.

July 9 Thursday Friday.

I started began the day gently – Harry brought me breakfast in bed – but soon started unpacking books when L & Harry were away buying things at Cranleigh , and then helped Laura unpack suitcases trunks. Then our things (& Alix's) came from Cook's and two work tables Laura had bought, and I forgot I was an invalid and carried tables upstairs etc, washed up 2 meals, helped to cook one, unpacked and cleared up. Frightful mess, remarkable work.

(Doubleday is interested in the dictionary.) Harry madly weeding the paths.

Sent N.N. £30.

Ignition trouble with car.

Govt Government take Quijorna.

July 10 Friday Saturday

We have a maid called Alice Mace. With her help the house was tidied & everything is now settled. L insisted on my sleeping staying in bed all day.

Rewrote Pygmalion to Galatea & wrote another poem about them.

Marble games with Harry in evening – ( tiddlewink game); and taking by hopping (one's own & others) with houghinghamstring? eds. : who survives with most wins.

Harry killed a rabbit with a stick, a small one, & felt bad about it.

Read a Wodehouse golfing book: Heart of a Goof The Heart of a Goof by P.G. Wodehouse. London: H. Jenkins, Ltd., 1926. eds..

Laura put up new curtains.

My bed-workroom is pleasant now with all my things: B. British Columbia gloves, SolomonGraves' dog in Deyá eds. picture, map of Spain, 'pool near school' on wall; work-table lined with brown paper & my Swiss pewter tray-plate & marble (CaracallasRoman eds. baths) paper weight and pewter cigarette case, & my refugee toys – Jens Jenson pin cushion, french dower trunk lock & key, the N.N. dogs etc. My patchwork quilt (the triangle-cut one) on my bed. My ash chair with the rush bottom.

July 11 Sunday.

Three new drafts of Galatea & Pygmalion

Toothache. Got up

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breakfast

Did a good deal of housework. Harry & I invented two games of solitaire: one consisting of each trying to get two sets of marbles to opposite ends of the board moving or hopping over according to the lines marked on it, one

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; one consisting

figure: sketch of marble gameboard

of each

trying by moves & hops to get his set of five marbles into the green enclosure: a rule – once into the enclosure no moving backwards.

A car ride to Charterhouse where I visited Gownboy Hall (broken chairs, dirty room, pleasant boys spending a rowdy (wet) idle Sunday afternoon) & Mr Stokesthe boy's school librarian RPG, in Lib Library , who recognized me at once.

Tired out by bonfire clearance of rubbish. Supper in bed: finished draft of prose-account of my poems.

Govt Government take Albarracin, near Teruel and six towns near Brunete.

July 12 Monday

Wrote out the prose account of my poems in a fairly final draft.

Laura got rooms for Alan & Karl, who arrived & spent the day with us, Karl immediately getting busy on papering drawers repairing & hanging pictures etc.

Heavy weather.

Oman's History of Art of War in Mid. Ages A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. eds. and Moss's Birth of Middle Ages The Birth of the Middle Ages, 395-814 by Henri St. Lawrence Beaufort Moss. London: H. Milford, 1935. eds. arrived.

Reading Greville again (still).

Laura got a ½ Persian kitten (no name yet) and spent most of the day training it.

I get easily tired but cannot be idle easily so took peas & gooseberries to my bedroom to top & tail, & shell

July 13 Tuesday.

Heavy weather: rearranged files & folders.

Letters.

Reading Birth of Middle Ages The Birth of the Middle Ages, 395-814 by Henri St. Lawrence Beaufort Moss. London: H. Milford, 1935. eds. which came.

Laura going over Ch Chapter 6 of Swiss Ghost.

Still weak on legs.

Korda rang up & wants to give me £200 for film rights of Lawrence book.

Kitten called Celia & has settled down at once.

Harry now beats me at our marble game every time: studies each move for 5 minutes, which bores me.

We go in the evenings for a drink at the 'Crown'.

July 14 Wednesday.

Fine day, hot. wore my linen suit.

Collected Poems now typed, and complete, but L has not seen some of the new ones.

Letters. Read Birth of Middle Ages The Birth of the Middle Ages, 395-814 by Henri St. Lawrence Beaufort Moss. London: H. Milford, 1935. eds. & Oman's Art of War A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. eds..

Laura finished Ch. Chapter 6 of Swiss Ghost & we talked over 7. and 7 wanted it.

The Crown has a most beautiful garden, lawn, roses, dovecote and enclosing cypresses.

Feeling much stronger.

Recovered prestige at marbles.

Five pp pages of Ch Chapter 7 of S. Ghost.

Lost my Georgian corkscrew in moving here: much mourned.

July 15 Thursday.

In the car to Guildford Harry Kemp did the driving; Guildford the nearest big town KG.

Bought 2 Staffordshire jugs for Philip's wedding present, & a pair of pinchbeck earrings for Laura, 5/-5 shillings eds.. Also putters & golf balls at Woolworths.

Heavy weather, rain in evening.

10 pp pages of Ghost ch chapter VII.

Smiths Dictionary of Bible A Dictionary of the Bible by Sir William Smith. London: J. Murray, 1860. eds., Christian Biography A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines by Sir William George Smithand Henry Wace. London: J. Murray, c.1877-87. eds, Christian Antiquities A Dictionary of Christian Antiquity by Sir William Smith and Samuel Cheetham. Hartford: J.B. Burr Pub. Co., 1880. eds. – 10 huge volumes, & Milman's Latin Xianity Christianity History of Latin Christianity by Henry Hart Milman. London: J. Murray, 1854. eds. in 8 vols volumes came, Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds. in 6. (one to follow). Reading Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds..

¿ How to deal with the ineluctable mauve carpet & the irremediable yellow-brown fire-place tiles?

July 16 Friday

No Alice Mace: who has a cough. Toothache.

10 more pp pages of Ghost.

Beryl has come to stay with Alan.

Golf ball duels on lawn and in the evening threadblown KG; see RPG 278-9 eds. duels on the purple carpet.

Reading Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds..

L. not sleeping well again.

'Agreement in principle' on British non-intervention scheme.

July 17th Saturday

Messrs Pyke the agent recommended Mr. L. Trace a Cranleigh dentist: & he seems unusually good. Hopes to save the tooth: x-rayed it.

for us Fortunately Alice Mace came & we engaged another woman for 2 hrs hours a day.

Rewrote a long-abandoned poem – 'Angry Samson' – and did another 5 pp pages of Ghost, in spite of tooth still aching.

Cooked bacon, potato, mushroom supper. Very stiff back.

Then (Harry driving,) Laura, Alix, Beryl, Alan, Karl & I went in the car first to the 'Windmill' on Pitch Hill, then to Shere where there are deaf white cats one of which was sitting on the church porch roof among bats – and a Barn Theatre mostly given over to chamberingset decoration eds. & wantoness. The road to Shere is through a nutwood-covered tunnel – like a Russian sap.

July 18 Sunday

Got up & helped Harry with washing-up, and prepared the stove-fire and put in the roast. But was then driven back to bed with intense toothache & neuralgia: the toothache apparently from a tooth behind the one Trace has been attending to.

Aspirins, hot bottlehot water bottle eds.; gravy on bread for lunch.

Managed to write 4 pp pages of Ghost before it got too bad.

Mr. Trace consented to see me at 5. Found an abscess under the other tooth, an eye tooth. Got an anaesthetist to gas me & removed most of it with difficulty. It was rotten & fast in the bonebone. Afterwards I wept & went home to bed: removed a piece of casing with a forceps & felt better. I said, on coming out of the anaesthetic that the way wisdom teeth were fitted into the mouth made one a Manichean, sceptical of a wise Personal benevolent God. Finished Ch. Chapter 7 of Ghost.

July 19 Monday

Anniversary of Rebellion and a dull, sweaty awful day. Face swollen. Not much pain, as such; but feeling lacerated.

Letter from E. AltounyanErnest Haig Riddell Altounyan (1889-1962), surgeon eds.; friend of T.E. Lawrence? KG from Aleppo wanting to correspond about Poetry. Replied.

Laura working on Letter Book.

I made a start of Ch Chapter 8 of Ghost, and (11 pp pages ) wrote several letters, made up a/csaccounts? eds..

Sent Claudius film version to Random House.

Dressed for supper. Thunderstorm. 66card game KG reintroduced.

Rebel counterattack at Brunete fails.

Karl making a mask of home-mashed papier-maché, painted.

War starting in China.

July 20 Tuesday

Face still swollen: a good deal of pain.

Two drafts of a poem called 'Cataphracts'became The Cuirassiers of the Frontier". DW; eds.

Sunny day.

Read Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds., another fairly final draft of Cataphracts.

In bed, except to supper.

July 21 Wednesday

Pain still: taking a sort of aspirin called Vegi.e. Veganin, another pain killer, see July 26, 1937 eds. Anodin or something.

Reading Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds..

To Dentist who alleviated somewhat but I am to expect pain for a day or two yet until the root of the tooth eases out. Back by bus.

Harry now practically always wins at marbles: I have no patience (or perhaps toothache).

Cataphractssee July 20th entry. eds. now in order and have discarded A Wounded Man. Slight alterations to other poems. Rewrote 'The Stake'.

Laura finishing preface to Letter Book.

Peroxide treatment of tooth.

July 22nd Thursday

Swelling nearly gone: pain still.

* Began writing Belisarius, 6 pp pages .

Nothing else much all day; letters, toothache, marbles in which I worked out a new technique.

Peroxide mouth washes.

The mask dressed up in an old dress of Laura's is a witch hanging on the wall in the dining room.

July 23rd Friday

Dentist again.

Less pain. Root of tooth mounting in socket. Iodine applications.

Spent most of day in bed, writing (& reading for) 17 pp pages of Belisarius.

All sorts of preparations going forward for my birthday.

July 24th Saturday . My 42nd Birthday.

Laura gave me a small Georgian wooden tea-tray & a Stuart table-knife & fork, ivory & inlaid silver handles. Alix & Harry an old Enlgish bowyew KG & a quiver of arrows. Karl & Alan a bottle of Kümmela distilled, caraway-flavoured liqueur eds.. Margaret Russell send sent birthday cards; a minituare miniature desk book-case, with drawing pins, paper clips etc. Honor a greeting telegram. James & Mary brought me sherry. Everyone working hard, cutting sandwiches etc: I met two buses for Mary Lucy (first time of meeting) but she came on the third. Balloons, fireworks, the drawing-room fireplace disguised with greenery. Arguments on how not to string a bow.

I finished Chap Chapter 1 of Belisarius & began going over it: retiring temporarily to bed with toothache.

A game playing in a pegged-out maze in the garden of redisposing 18 lines of Lady of Shallotpoem by Lord Alfred Tennyson eds. from single lines on cards. Talk & games till until 1.30 when L & I tidied up. Comic academic disputations between James & Alan on the immorality of a man on a desert island. Serious discussion of the Permanance theory as opposed to Buchmannite change & on the condition of poets when not writing poems.

July 25 Sunday

Everyone exhausted by yesterday & no Alice: got up & got 4 breakfasts. Then with Alix cooked lunch for 7 – Alix, Harry, Mary Lucy, James, Mary, Laura, me.

Rested in early afternoon & finished going over Belisarius.

Ros came with her three boys & Jim & a German nurse & a Baronin ElfridaElfride KG von something in Wartemburg. Sticky & Roz talked nonsense in a conversationaly polite way. Her eldest boy sneaked a golf-ball.

Retired to bed with toothache after supper & goodbye to James & Mary.

Laura talking with M.L. most of the day.

I gave Alan instructions as to what to look up for Ch. Chapter 2 of Belisarius.

Biggest battle of War : at Brunete, which has been retaken by Franco.

July 26 Monday.

Wrote to Jenny asking her for a statement about herself;& to Nancy about guardianship of children in event of her, my, our deaths.

Dentist , who stopped tooth & had expected pain to be diminished: took X-ray.

Mary Lucy is a poet: saw some of her poems, obviously she is a poet. A year ago she had had an instinct about Laura: from a chance word about her. Would get to know her.

I took 2 Veganinsa headache-relief medicine that contains codeine and caffeine eds., which removed pain, but made my heart pound.

Karl & Harry at Archery.

July 27 Tuesday.

Went over most of typed ch chapter 1 of Belisarius: read Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds..

Wrote letters.

Talking all morning with Mary Lucy mostly about Peggy & Nancould refer to Nancy Nicholson? eds. & Ben & such old stories. Ben had left Winifred because she had a 3rd child – one too many – & then had triplets by Barbara.

Mary Lucy went.

Archery in garden: I got quite to understand the bow.

July 28 Wednesday.

Wrote 13 pp pages of Belisarius ch chapter II.

Shot at rabbits with bow & arrow.

Went to dentist by bus. He says: it will be some time before the splinter of root works out, but better to stand the pain than spend two days in hospital.

Be The pain should gradually subside now.

Laura, Alix, Harry went to DolmetschAlfred Dolmetsch, a French musician and instrument maker, known for his recreation of early English instruments and performances eds. concert at Haslemere.

Laura doing Letter book.

A new very good cook, Mrs Jones, who immediately broken broke 2 of the 4 Wedgewood plates.

July 29 Thursday

Alix & Harry away.

In the morning did 8 pp pages of Belisarius, Chapter 2.

Accuracy with bow increasing.

Alan sent Vegetiusi.e.Vegetius De re Militari Flavius Vegetius Renatus et al. Rome: E. Silber, 1494. eds. précis.

At night finished draft of ch chapter 2.

Wrote to Watt approving Cassell contract.

Walk with Laura in wood, away from Ewhurst. Fields given over to rabbits & thistles.

Found a surprising accuracy with bow & arrow.

Karl with a cataclysmic cold.

Reading Procopiusi.e.The Secret History of Procopius by Procopius, of Caesarea. New York: Covici Fiede, 1934. eds..

Franco offensive at Brunete broken: the losses greater on his side, perhaps.

July 30 Friday

Reading Sidonius Apollinaris Poems and Letters by Saint Sidonius Apollinaris. Ed. William Blair Anderson. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard UP, W. Heinemann, Ltd. 1936. eds.

More heavy weather.

Going over draft of ch chapter 2.

The McCormacks came with Jennifer & we talked & played games (archery & putting) until they left at five.

Tooth aching less.

Continued work on ch chapter 2 until late at night (2 pm a.m. ) after Norman had arrived, with Alix, to stay a bit.

Karl, cataclysmic, is in bed today.

July 31 Saturday.

Shopping in Cranleigh

Bought an octagonal china plate (1830-ish) for Laura with Robinson Crusoe & his Family on it.

Gave completed ch chapter 2 to Karl to type – Karl better.

Tooth aching less.

Reading Sidonius Apollinaris Poems and Letters by Saint Sidonius Apollinaris. Ed. William Blair Anderson. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard UP, W. Heinemann, Ltd. 1936. eds. .

Laura at work on Letter book.

Norman took us in a car to Guildford via Shere where I bought for 6/-6 shillings eds. a silver lustre sugar bowl & for 6/66 shillings, sixpence eds. a flat steel instrument between a spoon & an omlette knife.

I woke up this morning repeating: milliers des roberts qui se battent pour nous thousands of policemen are fighting for us eds. roberts in my dream meant policeman.

Alan's Year of Damage rejected by Constable.