6th June 1959

Dear Miss Wiskermann,

Dame Rebecca West left yesterday for three
weeks' holiday in the south of France, and I have since
been tidying up her desk, where I found your letter of
May 28th and Mr. Bax's letter of the 19th May.

As I have no idea whether either of these have
been answered I am sending them on today to Dame Rebecca
but I thought I would let you have this explanation in
the meantime of any delay there may be.

I am so sorry that Mr. Bax has been kept waiting
so long - if in fact he has been - but things here just
before Dame Rebecca left were really rather chaotic and
I am not surprised that his letter may have been over-
looked.

Miss Elizabeth Wiskermann,
41 Moore Street,
London, S.W.3.