FROM THE MASTER.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.

10 July 1951

PERSONAL

Dear Sir,

I have no doubt that you will receive other
communications relative to Ella D'Arcy following on
your letter in the Times Literary Supplement of 6
July, and that they will be fuller and more informative
than mine. But for what it is worth, I can tell you
the following:

I once met Ella D'Arcy. It was at a lunch
party given by Mrs. Clarke in the summer of 1919 or
1920, either at her house in Grange Road, Cambridge,
or at Henley-on-Thames, I think the former. Ella
D'Arcy was, I think, a relative of Mrs. Clarke, whose
elder daughter was then at Newnham and whose younger
daughter, Pamela, I was then coaching: Pamela Clarke
shortly afterwards married Vivian Trubshaw of Clare
College who, I fancy, must now be dead, as his name
does not occur in the University Calendar. I was
put next to Ella D'Arcy and we had some general literary
talk, of no significance. The impression she left on