more cheerful and freundlich to have Suisse on a
decent standard again.

Yes, I reminded rup, at last minute, of bureau, she salu she nau
called them up. I suppose it is all right.

Thanks for House in P., it will come soon, I imagine, no
hurry, as am deep in Harrods shelves.

I noted, thank you, that you are Macpherson, Kenwin except for
Bump., as I rarely go there, it is all very clear.

Rather dumb letter, please forgive it.

Gold is being run about the town in fish vans and what-nots, can
not follow it, but evidently no one takes any notice, and it is
completely un-guarded. I suppose a bar of gold would be difficult to
make a get-away with, anyhow. But how very un-Newyorky.

Much love and best to the VEE,

ever, ye

Oct . 4 , Sunday.

Dear Fido,

Had a very nice dinner with Pup and S. Pup helped more, without seeing to mind, than she ever has. I imagine it is the release that the driving gives her. To-morrow, she is to go late out of town, and drive back after dark, to test lights, driving at night and so on. It is to be five hours uninterrupted driving. This is very exciting.

S. says there are all sorts of catches about getting a permit, but you know all this- anyhow, the Pup is very busy and pleased. There is place for cars under this house, you know. I suppose Pup could park hers here, later if she wanted. I have a funny feeling that I want to try it, too. Will wait till this ps-a time is over, then maybe go, too for lessons, but will wait, - it makes me, too, feel happy and released, and of course, any form of activity is useful in an emergency. I always had a bike, you know, not that that is anything, but was very slick at "tricks" - but this can all wait. I don't want to be rushed into anything. But it is good off-let for aggression and also makes one independent in the full sense, - but more of this later.

Cold but nice autumn feeling and mist. I love it. Heat on here now.

I told you.

S. loved old batch of Town and C., I took her. Also the
Pratts got a new lot of old Book Reviews, I am going over the
whole lot here, and posting some more to them or to
will give to S., anyhow, I hate books and papers not being
fully appreciated. O, by the way, a new lease of life in
Bears office, with Times, Manchester Weekly and New
Republic. I recognize the Macheavellian Br. ? Am I right ?
Just so he keeps L. and L. out of sight....

House in Paris I came, thank you so much, will enjoy it, and will
hand it on.

Sorry this is so dull. I will prob. be seeing K., one day
early in the wekk, and will write you any news I can gleam.
Trust the weather is stimulating and that you are happy with
house and garden and Vee. Best to all and sundry, and much love
and thanks eternally from ye olde

Oct. 5. Monday.

Dear Fido,

Cold and fog, darkish, trust your bulbs march, it sounds
good. I am amused at VEE and the gold. It is rather
surprising. I have been reading trash but am stopping
it shortly, am saving your good Paris vol. for a real
proper treat. Will speak to Pup, re other vols., and shall
note that I am to hold over here. I have torn up Cole's
letter, it amuses me so much, I have sent her a p.c.,
asking where We Two is ( are). Don't mention to her, as it is the
thin edge of the wedge and I want to pop in one day and see the
place and how it is and what she is up to there. I will
go gently ~ but use this as thin-edge; she may have posted it to
Herring, but I will trace it. I note shelves, will ask
S., it is very kind of you, I wish I had space, maybe I have.
I will ask Dog when he comes. I am so found of these shelves,
and the books keep on piling up, as it is largely your library,
I feel your old shelves might be indicated, but as I say, may
I leave it, for a moment, and see Dog and talk to S. about it.
Then, I will let you know. I am having these new upboards,
and would like, eventually, to move out, the big dark
chests of drawers, and might poss. find space for the
shelves. Anyhow...

Pup called up, the Macs. were there, she seems happy and said all
was well with your mother.

the play,
Your mother gave Pup a pound for Mlle., she and S. love it,
so I have the six untouched, so please, it is not necessary
to end more, Fido. Wait till this is used up and
accounted for.

I crawl to the bear-cave five times a week and find it
very lazy but am doing all the time, one way and another,
food, starvation and so on. We pick bits up now and
again, like the bull's ring-in-the-nose, but on the
whole, seem to be hibernating nicely, thank you.

Time changed yesterday,
always a little upsetting to the UNK.

Brook is on the prowl again, I will
stave her off as long as poss. I destroyed Hart

letter. Thank you.

Well, much love. The flat here is so
comfortable with steam-heat and the radio, ever with
1000 thanks, ye olde

Tues. Oct. 6.

Dear Fido,

I enclose from Cole. Seems almost affable, apropos _WE TWO_.
I now have the vol., do you want it sent you, or lent anyone
special ?

I had money from Coutts, thank you so very much. I have
written them, out really, dear Fiend, it is not at all
necessary. However, I will portion it out for movies and so on.
Silvia is feeling inbetween "lives", like myself and says now
she feels a bit too much alone, and I imagine she feels the
atmosphere, chez Tite, rather. So I will suggest to-morrow
that she and Pup make some dates for the following week. She seems
a reliable chaperone for the Pup on these occasional
outings, they seem to get on and I know S. likes the change.
She made Molly take a small job that was offered for about
a month, to replace a governess in the country- don't know what
or who, but S. said she saw no reason why she should work and
Mollie, not. It seems to be better for them both, in the Unk
and Molly now is wild to get back to her ps-a. So between
them, I have no doubt, I can rely on someone to "squite"
the PUP. Anyhow, for the moment, everything is entirely
in order.

Bear and I have had the most ghastly session but, as S. says,
one gets ones moneys worth that way. I had thought I was
going to hibernate nicely, but evidently cats don't.

I love Harrods library, have had practically a book a day,
si get my moneys worth there, too. I am reading Dusty Answer,
Alex knows the woman, I believe and likes her. It is good for
the UNK to slide right into all that, and I am really
profiting too. I see Weigall has a number of novels, don't
look very good, but I will try them, too. We had one, you
remember, pretty second-rate, - also J.Hilton seems to have some
I have not read and so on and so on. I looked for R.A. but find
none on the shelves, whether they are out, or not-done. A few
Lawrences. It is quite a study to see what is and is-not, there.
I will have a good brouse.

I will have a good brouse.

Well more later, and again and again thank you, dear Fido. I do
hope you don't feel too cut-off. I know how Kenwin gets the UNK,
however, and imagine you quite happy. Ever ye

Oct. 7. Wed.

Dear Fido,

I have a long letter from Clifford, oddly in answer to one from me, offering to help Aunt Agnes, if she should want to go back to Bethlehem to be near the old associations. He says she died early in the morning of the 25th, and was to be buried in Bethlehem, on the 28th of September. He dates the letter Saint Wenceslas Day, which apparently is Sept. 27, and sends me the impress of a seal I had often seen Aunt Agnes have, of Henri Chevalier de Seidel, who was who was of Prague, at the court at one time of Alexander I, and fought against Napoleon as cavalry officer. I don't know if I know that Wenceslas's patron of Prague, but am writing him and would be so glad if you would, too, and tell him more of Prague and your impressions and so on. I am very glad I wrote when I did, it seems so odd, our letters more or less seemed mind-reading. He send me a list of "family" dates and I will write him more for, from his own date, he appears to be 68 on Oct. 12, the last of Aunt Agnes eight children. He mentions you and your great kindness. I am keeping his letter to answer at length, then will send on, if it would interets you.

The motto on the seal which Aunt Agnes thought was in

Russian, I discovered, as a child, for her, to be French, but
had "lost the incident, and asked C. if he could confirm it; he
writes the motto for me, *l'amitie' passe même*
*le tombeau.*

I feel very sad about this, but ... can never thank you enough
for all your kindness in the past to them all.

There is no specific news. I am accruing a vast States'
correspondance, long letters from Viola Jordan with
pictures of her children one of whom, like P., wants to get
on the stage and seems talented.

I am working away and everything is all oke chez Bear,
but I got into a frightful and really dreadful
impasse, in which I thought he was sneering - you know how it
is. But now it is all right, and I do think it is "done", I
mean for the great worst. I know one always says that, but ...
feel the Bear too has taken a deep breath in the UNK and we will
now potter. I heard from K. last night; he is due in
to-morrow and I will write news. He was much amused at the
party and says he has written you.

Please accept all love and thanks for everything, dear Fido, from

Thurs. Oct. 8.

Dear Fido,

The Bear very kinly-ly suggested I come Sat. at the usual time, instead of Thurs. in the afternoon, which has always jolted me and made me mad. So I have Thurs. off and Sun. off, like any skiv, rather fun. S. was in, in great form, saying she had given the Bear conge'. Anyhow, she was getting released like mad, I suspect the B. will suspect you of incendiary bombs in her UNK, as evidently she threw communism versus faschism at him, her whole hour. I don't know what actually is coming of it, but she is calling me up, after her hour to-day, to report and is due in again on Sunday. Both of us seem to be abit on the war-path but I am taking it out in a more subterranean manner. Evidently S. has driven her brother's car, but never got her "lines", and I suggest she do it in earnest, it might be useful someday. That appealed to her, too, as the PUP is in such terrific form over her car, and has quite changed her whole attitude; I knew out ps-a was upsetting the Pup; last night, Pupsaid, "it is something I can do better than you all, with your ps-a," or words to that effect, so I tell P., I want to drive a car and S. does and how dumb dog is not to, and do on and so on. Pup waited here for her gilr-friend last night, had tomato and met g.f. in the hall; I did not see her but asked P. to ask her up; this is the Saint Demis Pup who is 20 and hates Saint D. and all that. Very good for P, and the g.f too, to get-together.

Key in little blue-cup in
cup board above radiator.

I hate to bother you, but could you send a vol. out of
my religious shelf in my room, to Clifford Howard ? It 's
an Italian vol., a book of the Saints, in Italian. I got it
Holy year in Venice, and never really cared very much for it,
but felt impelled to get it. I don't suppose he would really
care, only it is a more or less valuable book, and he has this
habit, among "familiars", of dating letters with Saints, which he
did to Beaver and to me, and is part of the UNK, I presume, anyhow,
he explains it by saying one is no more a catholic by using
these names than one is a pagan by writing Sun-day ...
a harmless little back-wash I presume of us both,
from his mother's cult of Saint Thomas and so on. Anyhow,
I wrote him and said it was being sent as for his birthday,
the 12th. I never did send anything but as he has lost his
mother, at the age of 68, it must be much of a shock to he
unk, and through him, I can pick up threads of the past for
ps-a, - all very odd; there is almost no one left, and I spent
so much time escaping the old-days anecdotes and so on, he have
no doubt, and Gretchen too, and suddenly all the old-ladies are
gone. Anyhow, I will write him now, - he will miswriting to
his mother and hearing from her. I repeat, he spoke of you
and your great thoughtfulness toward the old ladies, and we all
appreciate it so terribly.

I am sorry to bother you with this vol., I know you are being seen dead with it, no wonder. Can you explain to VEE, and get her to do it up ? Anyhow, do you mind terribly ?

Cold and fog. P. said all was well chez Aud. More later and thanks

again, ye

Friday,

Oct. 9.

Dear Fido,

No. I do not think we need keep on the box, thank you for the
trouble and for the past arrangement of said same. I think it
just as well to concentrate on Lloyds Bank as central address,
they always post on promptly and it is a little but more
secure, these days, especially if you shut up Kenwin.

I had a bath of books, thought
they were yours, so did not worry but find they were books of
the PUP. I am so sorry, saw P. and gave her special directions to
tell Paton to be SURE to send over the books as advised by
Mrs. M. I told P. to call me up last night, and tell me it
WAS oke, but she did not. I will try to call them up
this morning to make sure. I asked several times downstairs and
am so sorry as I was sure the bath that had come was the ones,
only it turned out, not. I will see to this, at once.

K. came in for a half hour, I am to
go to him, to-night. He was very funny on the subject of
Madame N-Davis.

I have had Una and Rachael on my door-step
rather a bore, R. wants introductions to Vienna, I don't

know her well enough but turned over the Barsis-Leipen
address. I can always write Mrs. B., or send her a pound to go
opera with R. If you happen to write Mrs. B. will you
mention it. I did not want to send Rachael to anyone else,

the Schwald group seems so political, and after all,
Alice and co., don't want another stray, dark and hansome
female on their hands.

I will try to send Clifford a night-letter as for his
birthday , on the 12 th. If I do, I will make it as' from
you and me and PUP, I don't suppose you will mind.

Thank you as for Timie and cheque. How do
you mean money is lost by cheque ? I thought that was the ONE
reason for cheques, the safety ? Or did you mean it was not
safe to write an open one like that ? Anyhow, I am on the
whole, pretty fussy, but let me know, please.

What an awful thing all this
publicity is. Thank you for the paper and for Harriet. How odd,
that she should have been as bold as that, and as you say, in
a way, what a good end.
By the way, dear Fido,
I saved a heap of cuttings from July of '33. I did not give
them to you, as I thought it would make you sad, but the
other day, I lent them to Rover. Do you think your
mother would like them, or would you ? I asked Gerald to do it,
and there are one or two photographs, nothing really
shocking, only the whole atmosphere was, then, and now. K.
was rather un-nerved by all the latest stuff, and I gave him
these others to look at, so he could see what had been written
then. I will try to get them back either for you or your
mother if you want them. Otherwise, I will simply keep
in my file I did not really read them, only glanced, and
G. had; there was only the usual, you know.

I am so sorry, I thank you again for all

aid and abetting, ever and ever ye

I think there are two keys to that box, on blue
etiquettes, if I remember, in the long basket, above the
radiator, in cupboard.

Don't worry about shelves, it was only the sentiment
regarding your old ones. I do not, really, need them,
just did not want them to go out of the family, will be
good for the UNK of S.

Thank you for news of art gallery, yes, I will try to go.

Madame Clara had royal box and
a grand silver-plate spread at the back, and
drank herself silly, then at the end, they met Ivor in
full war-paint and, mama was stood before the asbestos curtain,
told to fling up her hands. Clara stood back, exclaimed, "O my
pretty little depa, always you should have been her. THAT
is your place." Kex was reduced to a state of inward
suppressed exhaustion and acts it all out for me, very well
indeed, a lot of talent wasted, as Madame C. said, "my dear, dear
boy, I MADE Ivor, I could make you."

Oct. II. / Sunday.

Dear Fido,

Rather lovely day, no Bear, S. this afternoon. Hart is on
door-step, on Tues. So difficult now to deal with her, also
Brook. I suppose its as well to keep in touch, but I may
be wrong- it seems just such an old-wine wated in
perfectly good jam-jars or something. Anyhow-

Sorry K. did not write, he
said he had. I will discreetly see if he forgot to post,
he is due in to-morrow but a little difficult as Pup comes
then, too. But it is as well for me to talk things round and
over with Pup. I don't mind a bit and it ism better she is
here. Mrs. Ash will be in every day, there won't be much
trouble, I think.

Can't get a Harrod book so will
prob. read House in Paris, whin I have saved. I have the
Saladin too, thank you again.

Thank you for art-folders, also de Bruce whin
Silvia alsohd, I think he is not a good "vibration" for her, I
told her so - she was very upset after he had talked
zodiac toher. But she is getting so much more robust,
altogether.

MONDAY.

Sun.

I will " air" this, as I did not finish it yesterday, hoped for some
"news", but you know, Sunday what-a-hope in London.

S. was of, had evindefly been through a cigre, had given
conge to Bear, but went back instead, at once. She did not
give me details and seemed a little put-out and sulky, though very
nice, but I did not try to get-at her. She had heard from Cole on
telephone, 'e shelf, whic she very much wants,' she says she would
have got some if you had not given her these. She helped me
wih my books and was very nice, but, as I say, rather
subdued ... anyhow, these shocks come once in so often.

I called up Kex, he said he HAD
posted you a letter about four days ago.

I started House in Paris, loved it, but
saved half for to-day. Had the Totem this morning, thank you
so much, also letter for Pup, whic alas, I opened by
mistake but will explin to her.

I note all, re colds, and sorry Sister has
been acting up. Kind sympathies to the VEE, re same, her four-pound
baby.

Fog. I knit backwards and read
all this stuff, two Edward Charles' books, very good. I will
now look out thers by El. Bowen.

Yes. I did send off a night-letter,
in all our names, as from Mrs. A., thank you all the same for mention
it. Yes. Please send the Mille Saints, if you don't mind, and it is
not too much bother. Thank you again.

This in haste. I AM so sorry it is dull, but you
know what liſe is here, and I am really so sung and dug-in,
but will prob. be seeing more people next weſk, and will have Pup
also, very much iſ evidence.

Silvia's old nurse brought last Sunday Referee to her and said, "Here ... something about Sir John E., but its all lies. " I think that very good as from that stratum of society. I am very much on the war-path and "it" was much put-out in a/silent-manner ... about the usual Bob stuff, Kex also-ran. However, it is as well to see what passes for "news."

I did not know that there was any such a person as Mr. Kex until I read the article in the local paper. It said so.

Mr. Kex said, "I am sorry to hear that. I do not know of any such a person."

Good for you, Mr. Kex. I am sorry to hear that.

Mr. Kex said, "Please come and see me."

You did.

Mr. Kex said, "I do not know you."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Mr. Kex said, "Good morning."

Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Dea Fido,

I met P. at the Kettle at lunch time, she said your mother and all there, was well. She went to lesson, then on after, at my suggestion, to Under Two Flags. She came home about 7.30, and I had a good three course dinner for her. This morning, I gave her two eggs, and later breakfast, while really suits me better. We get along very well this time. I think, as Bear once said, she picks up vibrations from my UNK, and as said same UNK is getting nicely ironed out, there is not the clutch-and-strain now. Also, of course, her own work makes all the difference, as you well know.

I saw a very nice tall girl go out from Bear yesterday, she was running her own car, an enormous thing. I think she must be the American he has spoken of a few times, who loves Cornwall and finds it like New England. She looked very that-way and tailored but in the best way, intellectual, she may be "studying" or what-not. Anyhow, this is the first woman of "our" sort of world I have seen chez Bear, I keep skidding to avoid Bud, and Bear very carefully keeps Kex out of my range, and there is a tall gent who, at the distance, might be either Bud or K. Anyhow, its all very friendly and I am almost always early enough to get a run along his lake, while now with gulls in the mist might be Leman-also many swans.

I opened your letter by mistake to P.,

but explained to her and put the envelope all-but
intact on her bear where she found it. She offered me two
pounds, I took one and gave back the other for her and Silvia
to go theatre and dinner on Thurs., after all, if they dine
out, that is only fair, and she is out to-night. However,
she was very punctilious about it, and said you had told
her to do it, and it is as well she hands over the money,
even if I hand back a half. I am happy now in thinking
out more things for Formin and find it cozy to have
P. here, so please do not make any final arrangements about
her "rooms" till I see you or we talk or write about it.

You see, I am having those cupboards done, and the whole thing
now balances better in the UNK. I seem to have got one
formula of you-me-Pup as three fates or graces or something
to match Beaver and her two sisters; I being the oldest took
over from old Aunt A., prob, you being Beaver and P.,
Laura- not heaven forbid, the one you knew, poor old
Mooney, but Beaver used to moan how everyone had
admired Laura, who was oddly, a strikingly beautiful dark
girl, with dark curls and clear brilliant skin. OK
this, prob., got in her UNK, and in mine about "dark girls",
also I was struck by the resemblance of that old Man Ray
picture of you, my favourite, to an old dagode of Beaver
as a child, with short hair, really quite striking. However...
all this to say you and P. and I carry-on in my UNK, as a very
important trio.

K. said he had written you, he seems very mou, and non-existent,
then suddenly frightfully nice and kind about cupboards and
all that, simply you know, how he is. I see him, D.V.,
again tomorrow. Hart to-day and, alas, Brook on
Thurs.

I wrote your mother at once, saying P. was back and
thanking her.

I will hope on Thurs, to take in the art show and go Fortnum
at same time.

Well, much love , rather misty and mysterious, as I
like London.

How incredibly dope-makin' the vendage sounds this
year.

I do hope you are not too lonely, and that Sister is better.

My kind wishes, re same, to VEE.

Totem look a mine of amazement, and I will see it goes the
rounds.

Much love again and many, many thanks from

Wed. Oct. 14.

Dear Fido,

Thank you for all books, the new Capek has cone, I will take
great pleasure in it, and will lend to Kex and so on. Also
the N.Y. vol., I will take care of it. Hart returned Cromwell,
she liked it so much. She looked TERRIBLY thin and worn, had a
cold, and looked a shred. She talked rather wildly about
having put Catholicism under her foot, and how she liked the
Cromwell, and that she thought that HAD been England's
revolution, but that we should all be ready for what might
come, thought she thought the social conscience of the upper
classes, thought warped and blighted, might in the end
foestall it. Anyhow, I had a nice visit with her, and she took
away Summer Will Tell. I will see her again.

I go to this afternoon, D.V.,
and will later send you news, if any.

I had a shock to the UNK, saw a card
signed Br, at Bear, in prominent place on polished
radio, I almost thought it had been put there, as I'd wuld
say, " for a trap," I anyhow read it, and told Bear. He was
much amused, especially as he had not then seen the card, and was
pleased with idea of ham, it was very funny. I suppose the maid or
Mrs. Bear had unpacked the ham and found the card and put it
there to give him; anyhow, it was a great joke. The Bear is in
fine form, very slunk-ful and we are opening doors. He seems to

think I had opened up UNK very well with "papa, and had,
on my own, made many discoveries in conscious, but the
pre-conscious had hardly been tapped. so I had the top and the
bottom of the building, with a great skeleton structure
inbetween; how interesting all this is. So I feel now much
more stabilized, and he seemed to feel we were right in, now,
on the filling up of the middle layer; so funny all this. How
little we do know ... until we re-barge into a fresh layer.
Anyhow, I am very grateful to you for discovering BEAR, and
work here in Lodnon was especially indicated for me as all
the pre-c stuff had to do, or much of it, with the
London and Bloomsbury scene. You were super-c and UNK
and conscious, all most odd - like having a house with one
floor hermetically sealed tight. This all makes, I hope
for balance and continuity.

I finished the Paris House. WHAT a
lovely vol. I am giving it to Pup now. I got another of
her books at Hainds, the only one they had, short stories. I
will try for other of her books.

Pup is quiet and very busy. We dine
with a cook-and-wash girl, girl,
together to-night. She went old Vic. to Eli, abethian, bawdy
classic, I forget which, ad was very happy, came home soon
after eleven.

Fog and chill.

Hope all matches, you do sound very gay now.

Ever with love, ye

Thurs. Oct. 15.

Dear Fido,

I have given Pup the one letter, re Mrs. P., to read. I hold over the other, as idea of delay in the film, might upset her UNK. She is very good now, but I go easy and try to see that she gets out to films, so that we dine every other night, approx., only together. It works much better. Also, I give her later breakfast, that gives me time to get all-set early in the day, on my own. All these little tricks help the UNK. Also she felt flattered to have new pink sheets and is living up to them, and the car takes up a lot of energy. I can easily "nurse" her along at this rate indefinitely. So please do not worry about going states, as far as she is concerned.

I had an hour at Kinnerton yesterday. He was amused and disgusted at the same time, by a sudden ambition of him to do sur-realist drawing. He said it is the ONE think he most hates and the urge from you to him, to do a Xmas card, put him in such a mood that he forgot his lunch, drawing, and had to rush off to Bear sans food. (You better let him tell you this, as he has a fit if he thinks I talk him over, you know how he is.) But it was good fun, I raced back to get P. dinner, which now is so simple, with the nice jarred spoups, and extras; no trouble, and

does
I have early bath and read in bed, so she did the same.

To-night Brook is due so I tried to put off Silvia for
dinner but she rang up to say she thought it would be
"a fun" to face the Brook, so after an hour, it may be simpler to
have someone here, part time. S. and P. go on to a play
after dinner. All very good arrangement.

I am amused by all the va et vient,
what a lot of people, it sounds terrific, but I know how Kenwin
sees, when there.
Best wishes to VEE. K.

says he is going down week-end to lunch with "mama," and will
try to stop in here late Sat. after the train to report and
chew over things.
He SEEMS very happy with
the Bear but very touchy and jealous apparently of
outside, - I do not see how hear from Bud, it is better
for me to live in the present layer of the UNK, and I am
really so very happy now, untying knots. I seem to have found
such a nest of real knots in the thread, great fun really.

Pup loves House in Paris.

I will read Capek, thank you so much.

Fog. Misty and slunky.

I go now to the french art, I hear it is
so good and you, too, wrote. I feel like a skiv with my Thurs.
off.

Much love, darling Fiend, from ye

Oct. 22. Wed.

Dear Fido,

Thank you for letter. I will digest matter of cheque and
write later. THAT is too, too much. It unbalances me...
but to keep on the rails ;

re Pup;

I have not spoken or hinted to her. I would be very
happy if she went with you. She could, as I wrote, stay
here, at any time, but after all, I am pretty crowded till
the cupboards are in. However, that is a minor matter, the Bear
is great fun and the work marvelous, but I do feel it takes 24
hours of the day. At the same time, NOW is the time that I
can keep an eye on P. But I would very, very much
like her to go with you. I spoke to K. last night, and he said it
was oke by him. I had thought him a little resentful at the
hint I had dropped soem time ago, before you actually wrote.
He said, he would just as soon have P., but was going to
be too busy to take her about in N.Y., but that he knew Eleanor
would be only too happy to show her shops and so on. That might
not be a bad tie-up.

Anyhow, yes, do take P., if you still feel like it. I don't
know that she will be any good at getting up, maybe can do
some type for you. I am sure she COULD get breakfasts etc. But
naturally being a Pup!, it is easier for me to do it. I can
however, once things are finally decided, see that she

actually does practice with coffee, tea, eggs, those things.

She is, by the way, marvrous at shopping and seems to like that. I hate the shopping part. So, no doubt, she could be coached a little and the other would be all right. Anyhow, you are not dependent, on P. for that, the first day or so.

But I am sure it might be worked. I shall be so very happy, I repeat, for her, but don't want her "lost" over there. She said last night, when she heard American music, wheels went round in her head and she wondered if she could" compose." I think she might have some voice training, after all, it may be, alas, song that is her fote, she has the build and the heredity.

However, that will come later.

I am putting the cheque aside till I have time to recover, I don't think I would go states this year, but will think out something or may stay here. I have not had one minute for papers. But the idea is magnificent.

This in such haste. K. will come here to-morrow for mash and wants to call up from here, so I will know immediately what you may decide, and will then drop hints, only to the Pup, I am sure she would be so upset if she could NOT go, once the idea gets into her head. You and Eleanor and K. might talk over "music."

S. comes in to-morrow, she said she felt like the "salvation army with beginners", its all quite gone to her head, poor child. I too am a little light-headed with idea of hippo-whips.

Do not be unduly alarmed.

Well, MUCH love, I will go over your letter

Thurs. Oct 22.

Darling Fido,

De Mortuiis. Not that I would ever speak ill of Sister
but I am very glad you did them together, and also you were
very wise and kind and will be rewarded by the Great Djinn, I am
certain. They punctuated something for us, in time and I
feel it is good they went just now, while you were there; poor
VEE, give her proper condolences, I know it must have upset
you, too; your letter is so beautiful and funny, dear Fido.

K. comes in to-night, I imagine you wrote him - it does seem
utterly impossible that Sister started way back in the first
Sloane flat, not so long after you were dog-collared to K.

Well! Also, good that you did not entomb them in
the garden- there WAS something strangely unreal and
uncanny about little Sister and we must all have a sort of
djinn-power to have kept them so long. How incredible

Jules sounded - the whole thing, a psa phantasy. But then
life is- and sur-reallism. That is why I am quite, but QUITE
sure, you could so happily and really profitably paint or draw,
Fido. I feel it and always have, from one of the first time I
ever came to see A., and saw, fallen from a book, that
pencil drawing you did of the Angelo faun-head. That should
be a "sign" truly, Fido. After all, you have the

clear technique of line, you can get on from there. I assure
you the Gaugin( was it ? ) puppies on an out-of-drawing table,

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is no better than you could do. I mean it. There were
other Gaugin sort of sur-r. things, heads no better than
your sketches, and a bunch of bananas in a corner of
a table that you might have done. There is NOTHING to prevent
you from going ahead, it is all rot about being too old. I assure
you it is. You have it ALL there, you have enough
technique, I do assure you, I never was so damned impressed
by Lotte's beasts, my dear, you could do JUST as well, and this
in no flattery for I don't think, I KNOW. Look at
Lawrence, fed up with writing, and I know( though did not see
any "collected") that you could do better. It's just the
doing of it, letting it all rip. Begin on a composition,
sketches for some sort of composition, faces and some
fruit on a table, or "funnies" - you have all the gifts.
Do NOT hide your light under a bushel, now you are all-but
analyzed, I shall begin to think you have had a damn bad
rotten analysis, if you can't just kick that inhibition
to hell, and bang down some paint. There is no
"learning," you have learnt, it is a question of the" vision" which
you have. Pup saw the pictures, too, and picked on the
little-dogs, I assure you, Fido, who those people did those
things, you know as well as I, they were screamed at. And they
twisted their vision into time, and you should do the
same- please, Fido, prove the Turtle
IS a good analyst! Or defy him!
Nice cool veiled mist. I am off to do some shopping, as Rvr.
wants"mash"to-night. Silvia was cuffed by the Bear and so
was I, all about your money. We are beginning to think he needs a
spot of analysis. But S. says, "he is a good analyst, he brings it

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back to the nursery, every time. " He is a sort of
Fido, I think... dumb in patches, in a lumbering
manner, then diving for a fish in the UNK. I called up
K. to see if he had been cuffed, too. We thought it must be a mood
of the Bear. I guess he gets pretty fed up sitting there,
hearing about our fun.

Fido, I do not speak of the cheque, I am letting it sink into
the UNK. But it is safe, and I hope no tax.

Pup is off to a lesson, finishes the course this week.

Of course, I shall be damaged to have her go states, it was only
that dog was grousing, but he said now it was oke, everyone
seems so touchy-but K. is due in and was really very
kind last time about Pup. He apparently does not want to take
her about the first weeks, naturally, but, as I wrote, was kind and
reliable, about Eleanor.

No. Of course, I did not, nor would, write Mary Herr or any
other.

Well, blessings and please realize that you are from this
day-on, to carry on the good old story. Fido, Gaugin
tradition.

Ever with love,

Fri. Oct. 23.

Dear Fido,

You sounded very far-away last night, in all senses, I do hope
you will be all right; but by now, K. will, d.v., be on the way.
We had a nice talk, all very bear-vibration, of course.

I went to Harrods to get some funny blow-outs, I thought they
might be as effective as a whip, anyhow, it made me laugh...
sort of carnival aggression. K. said he would mix xoxk-tails,
on the Saturday, if you would like me to ask some people in. If
so, let me know by return, that is 31st, Hallowe'en. Its
50-50 to me, as it may be difficult ... I mean you know what
I am like. But if it would be convenient to you, we could have
in whom you liked, make a rough lfit, Johanna, I presume,
Coles, maybe the Rats, Silvio and Shiela( or not)

and so on, Lotte and Koch, I presume. I will call
them up in rotation, if you think it would be funny, s a
good-bye, for you won't have very much time. Bud of course,
and maybe that boy-friend of his, anyhow ... all these "boys"
are so full-up, really we must know two weeks beforehand and so
on and so on, so coy. But this in only an idea ... and can
be shifted too, if you want, but I though Hallowe'en
might be "American" and a joke.

I miss you very much, dear Fido, and would so love to come
in Pups place to states, but I am in such an aggressive
bear-layer, it is as well, to shift it out. He says an

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Important point was reached and passed - I told you-
with externalization of the " hidden phallus."

But it seems to me endless- only I evidently struck
bed-rock with "papa", and have the rather tricky business of
filling in gaps. Anyhow- enough of the bear. I have told P.
she is to be a sort of secretary and so on. Last night, she got back
from El. Hare, and was rather moody, but seemed very thrilled in
a sort of under-way, went quite white, I told you one day, speak
of American music.

K. says he doesn't mind at
all having her. I would be so, so, SO relieved, really, dear
Fdio. I only thought I COULD put her up this year, and if she
was in the way, she could stay here- but it was rather by
way of a "test." It CAN be done. But it will be so much better
when I get the shelves, they are just going to fit them, this
week-end, but they have to be painted etc., also each
month, P. gets more settled and easier to talk to and deal with.

The great trouble is, her curious sulky over-whelming
swamping-out of anyone who comes, I suppose a hang-over
from early days, anyhow, that is the ONE thing. When I am
alone with Pup, I must come up to breathe so to speak,
with other people, outside talk and so on, and if every-time
anyone comes in, there is a sulk, it is too over-whelming. But
that is a kink on her part.... and I have managed fairly well,
anyhow. If I do out, he says "I suppose you're meeting
a tom-cat on the corner, " I suppose it is some idea of
"lost" parent, or fear of loosing me, anyhow, it was good,
and, as I say, each time, it easies down a bit. But I am
only too glad for you to take her.

I have been reading Math for the M. and not skipping any,
there is an antidote to "majic" if you will, all
those formulas, put down so beautifully. I am
grateful to you. Bunny, that I had copied down
the name and publisher to order it as for you. It will
do us all good, K. picked it up last night and was
immediately lost to the world, too.

Much love, I enclose a scrap
from the Pup.

I DO wish I could see Y O U,
let me know if
any time is possible, it is SO much more
important to see you,
than any crowd, but I will leave it like that, and
wait till I hear.

Much love, and endless thanks, darling Fido,

ever ye

Oct. 25, Sunday.

Dear Fido,

I have your long letter and will post to South A., or take
there. P. is due back to-morrow, too risky, I think, to
send to Brighton.

I repeat, I am only too grateful to you for taking her, it is
really a god-send for me.

I note you do not want to see anyone, so will not ask them
here, the 31st, it is all oke by mw. I felt it would be
rather a rush, and note that you will come over here, one day,
"incog," why, that, I don't quite know, but I
will be in any time, prefer to see you alone or with Dog as almost
at moment, impossible to talk with Pup, but will explain this,
later. Come any time you want, I shall just leave the days free
for you.

I am sure that you will be very happy in Boston and only
hope and pray you stay over there as long as you possibly can
arrange. I shall be glad to have you here, on return, I
presume with P., but all that will work out, and I shall
expect you to be unhappy, so won't be upset as I was last time
you came back from states. Please remember that all will
be ready for you, and P. if necessary, and work off all
"straff" on me, then, I shall expect it, and try simply
to endure your return-staff at Angleterre without getting my

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get even by going to America in MY way, to MY
America, in MY way. I don't think any of you know of it,
maybe hex has a glimpse, with his clams on the coast. But
forgive me, Fido- you know you have more than made up, and
have given me books, but there are somethings I get
tired of hearing preached at me about.

However, again blessings on your trip, and I shall simply hold
open the dys till you go, and will not invite that
set in now, whatever you may say, next letter to the
contrary, I can't tell if you got the letter suggesting
party. But soit, so be it, I shall be more peaceful
alone.

Best to ex, and I will post the Pups letter early in
the morning, otherwise it will lie round Audley all day, or
else I will stop in with it in the morning on way to hear.

More later, everye,

I think this CAT is a polar-bear-cat with the pole-star,
and you two are Siamese kittens, you act like them, not DOGS
at all....

Mon. Oct. 26.

Dear Fido,

I am beginning to think, after all, you have a decent
analyst, if he, HE, can get you to get away from your
completely haunted-house-t-the-crossroads atmosphere,
plus what-not in the way of alarms and excursion on the way
of the VEE and O, Fido really excerpts from your letters,
(I have discovered) would make a magnificent Brendin vol., and if
you do not behave yourself, I will get Georgie to illustrate
some of them, I can SEE the spyral symbolism of the stairs and
the VEE in Fido characture with apes in ghost outline... yes,
high time the dog collared you by the collar, high time you
got out into the blithe un-geist atmosphere of new
Babylon and old Boston.

No wonder you did not like the idea of hallowe'en with all
those ghosts on your door-step. We won't have a party. I will
leave the day and days free and it would be fun if just"us"
could meet, if dog could mix us a drink... I won't ask any one like
Lotte, it was only for YOU. But I will leave the day and days
free, and have anyone in, you may yourself want. Though I
would prefer to be ALONE of course, to chew dirt and
ps-a and bear and turtle and all that.

Silvia, at my delicate hints, has determined now to drive a
car, her brother has one, but evidently she has not got a
regular right to the road. Maybe later if I go states,
I will go in a mob and take S. as secretary-chauffeur. I want to
go states but off the track, to see the "cherry hung with snow,"
in other words, dogwood in its native wood. All that.

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I have had the Hog folder from Georgie and written him for
50 to send out as preli. Xmas cards. I will make it my
card, it is really very beautiful, with a hog against a
snow-peak and a sort of Algernon Blackwood Centaur Pan
for a Weltgeist, very chi-chi but beautifully done and the
light touch for the HOG. I am really very pleased, dear
Fido, and do thank you and Georgie and Brendin. G. seemed
scared but I wrote him at once that I was very, VERY
pleased and it saved all the trouble of Xmas, and I am really
pleased in a funny little way.

Rain. Thank you for enclosed from S., I think she is
well on the way to release. She seems a bit sulky with the
bear as he "takes the credit", I don't know just what she
means, but feels somehow, I suppose that he is smug about
her solution of problems. She puts it down to your
offering her money and chance, he puts it down to his
spade-work on psa- and so on. Anyhow, S. is good company
though seems at times, very frail and rather put-on by her
large family ... except now Molly has had offer of two art
jobs, very odd, on top of her ps-a, too. Una has a good
job, conducting some sort of orchestra, I believe in Ireland and is
nibbling re ps-a literature, but I am not bothering much. Silvia, by
the way, was at a vol. or vols. of Anna Freud, can you have sent
her, for herself, I would be glad to pay, but you can send
quicker ? She said she keeps saying, " I believe in Anna
Freud's theories," and then does not know how to back up the
statement. But that anyhow, it is good.

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Great joke as Cole sent Gerald and Joan to Tite Street
with the shelves and the KEY she had forgotten to send with
the case. Very funny and S. said they came in and had a drink
and she felt Cole was trying to creep back to her fold" by the
back door." Dear, of course, found it very significant
that she 'forgot" to send the key and the shelves and sent just
the empty, locked and hence useless case.

Give dog good greetings, and much love to you, and I Am
so very, very glad you are off to the States. I posted the
letter to Pup and told her to call me up at once on her return,
to say it was safe and all contents duly understood.

Blessings and again thanks for
all and especially the Hog, or as I call it to G., the Hog-geist,
ever ye
cat-geist,

Tues.

24-Oct 1936

Dear Fido,

I find it so difficult to write in the morning that I
am sending this to-night, instead of to-morrow; sent you
a card on the way out. But this to say all is oke if you
want to come direct here ; I did not realize what you
meant by "incog", but P. asked me when you were due, as
Lady A., said Dolly was due, prob. Monday. I smelt a rat,
and hence juts say that the place is free for you at any
time, and I will tell no one that you are due to come. You
can arrange as from here, if you want to see people.

Had rather a
long talk with P., who is very keen about States, but getting
a phobe, she will never make any sort of get-way finally. I
tell her, to mark time; that surely eventually, he will
have a place on her own, of some sort. I think it better
to let her hold this idea, as she really does seem
to be rather swamped there with atmospherics, and if she
feels she is caught for all-time, she may just jump off on
her own, as this El. Hare has been putting ideas into
her head, of one sort and another ; herself lives in a sub-Audley
round the corner, and says she and P. can go live in a barn
and go Ibsen with a grip in Sussex; all very well, but
extremes may well be avoided. I fed P. up with "Uncles," said
uncle Tuttle would be able better to advise her, Uncle Bear was
interested and so on; better keep in with people like

Just in case things get tangled, I will leave word as
well, downstairs, and the key, so that as last resort,
one of the boys will have key. I repeat ; Kettle, Ask,
boy ; sure to be a key somewhere.

I feel extreme battered but due partly
to UNK unravellings and the pounding in the ears, but by
Fri., I should be very fit, and in any case, it is going to
be so good to see you.

This in haste to get out to-night. Love to
Rover . It rained and great gales, but I
find it tastes of the sea, and the wet gardens are lovely and
wild and free.

Ever with love and gratitude, yelde,
welt-cat,

Thurs.

Dear Fido,

This, in haste, I don't know if you will get it, but I have
already written about key and how glad I will be to see
you.

I shall leave the time open as long as you are in town, in case
at any time, you care to pop in, can give you extra key, as I had
two more cut, so that you can run in" and wahs your
hands", or chat of a morning with the Ash. Anyhow, it is like
that, and you know, I am ONLY too, too happy to have you at
any time, I just made a pronouncement about the punching-ball,
so as to prepaire myself to be as useful as can be. If you
WANT me for a punching-ball or some sort of shock receiver,
on return from states or at any time, I am ready to
oblige. It is only that having peeled off skin and sat me
down in MY own, I say MY own beautiful falt last time, it was
too much for the UNK, to have your driving-metro force busting in
and straffing. But you can come and straff at any time for
as long as you want, just so I know a little but beforehand. But
I will take that for granted now, and you can charge at the
whole solar-system if you want from he small secure
footing of my flat. But let it be a secure footing.

I will call up Silvia,
she will be so happy to come early tea on the Sunday. I know.

re Johanna.

Crete exhibition

I note you will make your own arrangements

I have to-day free and am off to the

It would be fun to go out with Rvr. on the Sat. evening ... but I can give you the usual soup and beer supper if you prefer it in.

Love and thanks always, ye old de,