Tuesday.

After lunch, just by way of a paw-mark to Rover's letter. We have already begun to remote or to remort, are anyhow very stern and detached, but are going now to Lausanne and will no doubt pick up over tea. I guess Rover will have a little walk up the Cathedral steps and Mog will go sniff at Fish Litt. in the book-shop. By the way if you know of a book on solitaire or a book on card fortune telling, will you get it for me in London ?????. They are beginning to suspect me at the Bookshop. I have, by the way, begun your Tibet book and like it, it reminds me for some odd reason or non-related reason of Venice. I suppose one gets the orient there sometimes, anyhow this is " east is east and west is west " lovely Franch and full of colour, bits of garments and slashed orange trappins on horses, very sort of Pailo Uvelli, and analog it links up with Corfu, and I will send much time-over it. Thank you ... it does NOT bite my tail, sorry it did yours, but I will give you a brief resume on return.

The house is very very very very quiet. Give love to Pup. I put her gentian in moss, will you tell her, and they look as if they were going in through the woods. I found another new-bush, a thing exactly like orange, not the fragrance of course, now Rvr. say we will have THAT too on our estate. " This is nothing, only in haste to

Tues.

I ordered some narcissus for you as K. and I
had both wanted to send. We really are
going up the hill one day and get our own, this
addressed from the shop as I did not think it wise
to have my queer writing and K. had gone on to
the bank. All your letters wonderful. This in
such a hurry to get the post. Bud has done a
very good and journalistically tactful
little article for the M. G. on Paul Robeson,
filmed at Luitry, mentioning only P. and Essie,
quite the best beginning. He said he was
so happy to see you and you had talked more than
he had ever known you to, in London. I have
written, sent a bundle of slips, and K. is
now writing him. We DO miss you.
I have given orders if either Python calls up,
that K. is busy out but will return at 6
this giving K. time to work out whatever slime
he will, by way of putting them off, as K. is
all nerves and can not work for fear of
the telephone. This is the best procedure, I
think.

K. busy all
morning in cellar. Charlie writes, we hope
tosee Br in London so be ready with excuse if you
do not want them ... but they might be funny
at Haudley. Love and in a hurry.

May 9.

No special news, I hear Fido, except we are both
relieved to have the sun break through in the snow bank
of clouds AND they had switched on the heat again
here, very mild but a vast improvement on the other
days. I met an old hag in the hall who was
being dismissed by Claire. She wanted to see you and I
let her in, she wants to send her two little girls
to Mademe Nicole while she and her husband by a farm
in Africa, she is Anglo-Egypt and very
ridiculous Oppy sort of character, out of May Edgerton novel. I would have hoofed her out but thought of
Mademe N., so was polite and said you would be back
in ten days. After all, it would be a pity for
madame N. to loose the two girls, so I was polite.
Engaged it too in a meretricious way.

Rover is very, very good. He has just picked all the
pansies, the parrots are exquisite, I will never
forget the first lot you brought me at Holland Place, you
won't remember, they were heaven and a door to heaven,
a mat, a carpet in paradise. They are just
the same here as they were the springs ago from
Eastbourne ... I am glad the
folks is better. Ouchy is the same, Dog found out.
K. will be talking again to-night, you will see

from his enclosed how things are. Can't I write
as have bust a screw but Rvr mended it a bit, but
I am a self-conscious using the might pull
instead of the wrong one.

This all like that and with much, much, much love.
Give love to Eileen and say how hard it is for me
to write. Dog tells me of the nerve-collapse, I am so,
so sorry, but you will have to all the rest to do and
we will all just trust Lady M. will be better.

Ever so much more love,

May 10.

I am emorting to the tune of " Thru."
Rvr. is a very good dog. He spent the morning
in the garden, pulling up the sick pansies and
shaking the worms out of their roots and
re-planting them. I think that very touching and
good dog gardening. He is very happy about
some petunia shoots he has got for Fido. I
think it better he does not over-work in the
cellar as he got stirred up over the concours
des avocats and at any moment, we expect Python
with a gun...
to run in Dumas here for something, but it will
really be all right. Python is good and very keen on
you should not be bled. Naturally the other man
who had probably planned a trip to
Siam on the graft, is a bit mad. Maron Glace
is neutral but amused ... a real small town
Fido situation. Come back and do the leading
cow-girl rescue act of the much
heckled Rover.

But otherwsie ... except for a recrudesnence of
clouds, we are happy. We go again to
Lausanne as I want some special pills and
Jules has fittings. Also as to-morrow is
his day off, we thought we would do the
reverse run of the de Brie and thus into
" town. " All love and don't get too
unset. Rover is very good and philosophical, in
fact we are beginning to see it all as a grim

sort of Gaunt Island joke.

All news welcome. Love und and more love.
I do Patience every night, am becoming
an addict. MOG

Peter J. wrote me that all my pipes were
flowing into the flat below and they
couldn't get at Mr. G. M. I wired back
directions....

Wed.

A paw-mark. Rain, rain, rain, RAIN. Rvr.
is very good but he is getting madder and madder, he
will have hydrophobia soon if you don't come back.
Please come as soon as you CAN, if not for your
own sake, for mine. Rvr. sent his last missive, he
can't go on with the lawyers, it is YOUR job. He has
been very good, but it getting mad as all his
mornings are spent doing legal French-letters ( if
you know what I mean !!!!!!! ) Now
he will soon go under completely ... had done no cutting
to-day, is too un-nerved. We live only for the
Totenfest at Munich. I see myself weeping in a
town-square under a shady tree, with an orchestra a la
Berlin Zoo, and drinking beer, beer. This let us all
celebrate the Tots; this life in the rain is no
life. Come back. Let Muncher be your Excelsior, you
be here andphered to a Heiter Sten. As for there
ARE pictures, are there not, in Munich and baths ( to
be avoided. )

No news. I sent off a closeup to Lithuania. Then I
got a letter from Brigit, saying "it was such a pity
the Robesons were out of town when I ran across with
dean Richard, then too there were so many parties, I
wouldn't have had time to see them anyhow." Or words
to that effect.... being funny, as the Robesons were
NOT out of town and she didn't have to drag them in anyway
and will you call up OPPIE and get any dirt and tell

Thursday.

Fido, dear Fido, Rover has just brought me in
a very clever " French letter " to Dumas and now
he is writing some more business letters, so
as he may be going out in the downpour to post, I
will hurry this. It rains and rains. Not just
rain but a sort of cold tropic cloud that sits
and flows on us and won't move away. All the same,
we went actually in the flood, last night to the
Sprechie and found it excellent. Jules went in
too and was evidently impressed but hated to
commit himself as it was German and he insisted the
words were bad but of course IF it had been
French it would no doubt have been amusant as the
fanfare and the music and noises were exceilent.
Willie Fritz was very good as an America son of
Ford, and oddly Lillian Harvey almost attained
a Bergneresque quality of intellectual
cattishness and cold calculation. She looked
better with smoother hair and had charming
clothes. The support very good. Nice theatre and
we had refreshment in the middle, got back not
much later than we do here sometimes, about
11.30, had drink and nice talk and then
find rain again this morning.
Have been writing, this not very witty. I have
pages of HER back and am working on that and a sub
Robeson thing with you and Bennie and Daniel

May 15.

Fido, Rover sent off early telegram to "dada." I
do hope it reached him all right. We will wait
eagerly to-night in CASE you call up. We were
planning to call YOU up but as you wrote you
would, us, if you were in, think we better leave it,
though K. is CRAZY to talk to you. New
developments, while no doubt he is at this
moment writing you, as I hear his tap tap tap tap,
keep time to mine. The SUN is out. We had a sort
of Japanese fete en ville, streets crowded, everybody
beaming like Armistice day the first. Last night
there was a sort of c-loud burst and, true to predictions,
this being the last of the Saints de Glace, Pancras,
the dressmaker said, I think, the storm has sort of
got tired, of its tropic rain last night and now this
queer thing, sun-light that is hard to
adjust to again after all this mourne
time.
Come back as
soon as you can. A little new fortune pack
I got, told me my past was two MEN and
dangerous gossip and my future THREE women, all in
a line, funny wasn't it? Also I told K. He was
so amused by the 1830 drawings on this French pack that
he asked me to do him and it came out too funny.
He had a young man in his ascendant and in his PAST
a pregnant women'!!!!!! Protecting him was a stolid

little lady ( fido ) and
what he feared was a snake in a rose bush, funny
with all this legal stuff... his future was just
money-money. Wasn't that a joke too ?????
The rain evidently takes me that way...
I have got too Sybille de Societe for words.
Come back and save what is left of my spongue
brain.

And darling, thanks for all letters, this as far
mark. No news, except the Gregg seems
to have got away from his family again and
broken into Fleet Street.

Love Darling,

May 20.

Kee! getting little bouts of blind staggers, so
forgive just 2 words, am on way to Lausanne with
K. Have taken several little trips on boats on
lake, too, too b autiful, am looking forward to
being Helga Doorn in Sweeden or near there this
summer.
I got roses for Uno this morning. K. is
good but a little grown up and uppish over a
letter I had fro the erst Mc A. who
has put me in a book, to be illustrated and do I
mind ??? I wrote my " past " was now public property
just so it was disguised enough to elude the blood
hounds, I didn't care a damn, wasH. Doorn now
anyhow and encloed some Mog snippets,also
sent him last C. U. mit Paul. Bob was in
Mexico on way up to Los A. and San F. and was
all over himself, rather better than usual, half
apologizing for sending me slip which I wrote h im
frankly bored me ... letter here for you on
return. Dog is very good, had excurrrrrsion
yesterday and in the middle the two
skivs came home from upthe hill, armed with
narcisse. They put a pot of it on table,
shaped with white crepe paper and tired with
WHIRE RIBBON like a wedding or confirmation,
K. and I nearly die and can hardly eat for
giggling, all serene and comeback... Jules has
rang so will stop, daling, soon, soon you will
be here, love,

Mon. 9.30.

Just a line, Fido. Excitement here is great.
I do not re-write description of last
night. There are no words, vide Dog letter.
I am better but over-did things at Cap d'Ail.
It is all you say, up there, long white roads
with no steps to the sea, big villa gardens all
with Chien Dangereuse written up and barbed
wire and iron railings and miles to
walk to get to the sea. I came back completely
wrecked and think it will be my last exploration
outside the Monaco frontier. All here is
comparatively open and public at the same
time snob, it is snob and democratic, at the
same time, a rare combination. K. has gone to
bathe.

Will you put a cat in your box ? There is one
I gave pup or else get key in the side pocket of
the key case in the cupboard under the books. Unlock
the trunk, there is a cat on the top tray in the
little side compartment. I have a hunch that I must
have one of those cats for my shelf, even if I
do give up the place, it makes for good luck and good
feeling in Slogne St. Stephen took my one little

cat. I hear from mrs. Parrott that she will
do out t[e place so am writing her again full
details. I go to Cooks to s ee about
Wagon Lit this morning. We will all
ret[urnr the Sat. , the last day of Aug. I
miss you so but must give up thinking ab
your coming. I am going out now to
post this, I have found all the shops now, pos
offi[ee, tobacconist/ etc.etc. Buddy WILL
go shopping all the time, he has a TRUNK for
these two weeks and all accessories.

More late darl[ing, love,

2.

but am now a little sorry, we
did not plan the Sat. , getting
back for the collar I am sorry
about mama.
we
come in to London as you MAY
plan to be there. If the train is
on time, you will make it. Can't
you pretend to dine out with Cole, and
then come on to meet Rvr. ????....
I have NO presents, but ordered
Compton Mackenzies "Extraordinary
Women," as Bud said it was
really fun, and I knew you would be
found dead rather than getting it.
It is a birthday gift but can be
changed. Also, I want to get you
a moth bag, as you liked mine, a
" repeat " but you know how hard it is.

Wed.

======

Fido, I gave you Mrs. Parrotts
address. I repeat it :

4 Davis Place
Cheyney Walk Chelsea.

It is so hot we can hardly
move. I am terribly upset and
have been, about your
birthday. We arrive ( I repeat )
the Monday toward evening, are due
in 7.30. But I will
check up on this and you can, as
it is the BLUE , we're booked on.
I hate to think Rvr. will be
late for collar day. It was difficult
getting the tickets back at all in
Aug. We made a great effort

There is nothing here but thousands of
clothes and elephants that you would not like.
I will want to know what I am to do with
PUP but all that can wait. I will be
glad, in a way, now to get back. The heat
is TERRIFIC, even Rvr. is resting, writing in
" shuttered " windows. Imagine HIM.

Buddy and he were out till 2 last night, and it
appers Buddy got quite, quite tight and giggled ALL
the time. Rover did it was " boring " but I
don't know particulars, they may have had the
time of their lives. Everything sticks, and all
inhalates up in the pens. Everything is
baked and toasted and scoarched. The
soles of my feet now have blistered.
The
Pool is marvelous but the bones of the floor around
and literally, like an over woman wear little
shorts, some of them and tiny brassieres. It is
funny... but of course it is always the
ugly fat ones who wear least. LOVE daring and I
will so very soon now see you.

MOG-

can get a second off after coffee, and mama will
perhaps be amused with all " dirt" that
direction.

Do, do, do, do keep well and be good. I will
write more later but if I don't hurry this
it misses post. When I get back, I will
properly write and thanks for ALL.

K. swims now quite nicely, keep up and
is losing phobe, his arm is better. It is
good for him to swim as it breaks down some
deep phobe, he tells me.

Wed. morning.

A hurried line ... K. asked me to
enclose these. Things are going great .
K. is off to the beach, Bud is
Writing letters in bright rose pyjamas, we
all meet as per usual. After lunch, they will
try out the big plage. It is HOT, and blazing
sun all the time. O, it is lovely, if only
you were here.

I am posting telephone account to them direct so
telephone at 169 will be in order. Note the
other addresses but don't worry.

I hear from Oppie that she will be away
in Sept. Peraps if you have a moment at S.A. ,
you will call her up and say I am back about mid
Sept. , otherwise, he may wait to see me.

Just this, if you happen to be amuzed and

a blink white fire. I tried
not to wear glasses but now
have to. I had yesterday alone
here in the afternoon. They have
found a bar at the plage now.
It appears the boy we write of,
the Parrot owner was in
Hollywood and is here " quietly ,
as he does not want his friends to
find hr. " I thought he
was American, a better and worse
sort of Glenway. This coast seems
prodigal with bunch.

Daling, a thousand kisses. I
will SOON see you. Remember a
REGISTER, we leave here the SUN,
arrive the MON. We leave here AUG.
31, arrive Sept 1.

Love and will try to write later.

Off to beach.

Thanks for all mags. All we do is to
look for " distinguished guests at Monte
Carlo. " will keep post for train.

Thurs.

Fido, I repeat, we leave here at ~~about~~ 4 on the Sun, arrive about 7.30 the Mon. I made the mistake the FIRST time, only in the DAY. I think I have repeated it in every letter since. I am sorry though that we will not have that little party, but maybe about Wed. we can. It makes me mad to repeat this as I feel I want to be with you or have RVR. with you collar day.

I am terribly hot, very happy but
it is a sort of tropic heat wave. Even
Rover sits in shuttered room. Bud
says he was never happy in his
life till now, or words to that
effect. It seems to get you that
way, if at all. I am reading all
of Miahael Arlen. I can't see,
as room is shuttered as sun is

Oct. 10.

2 HERBERT MANSIONS

169 SLOANE STREET,
LONDON.S.W.I.

Dear Fido,

I hope it's all right. I called up Buddy this morning. He sounded suicidally dismal and sort of whispered in the receiver, " you see I can do nothing till THEY go. " I had a long talk about films etc. and he wants to ask me out Sat. afternoon, if he can arrange and is to call me up some morning. I hope it was all right. I said, " Bryher tells me she has told you about the little girl. Bryher wants me to tell you she is the same. " I did it that way as it means nothing on the telephone but he said " there was no reason to tell me. I did not need to know. " I felt rather queer but I think it was just his nice way and I said, " it isn't that. But I sometimes feel Br would like

to talk more freely to you and I
was sure I would become tongue-tied unless I
just broke down the barrier this way. I think
it is all right. Just say so ... I only said Br. is
like the little girl which might have meant you
were studying the same things or something
or both had adenoids. ( The window cleaner has
come ... slight interval. ) To continue ...
tell me it was all right ? Also write Buddy in veiled
terms something of that or to that, effect. I AM
all rather wobbeldy this morning. I went over
some of R. A.s' letters and they got on my nerve and
now Pitt due after lunch. I will try to send a
card after he goes, just saying I feel all right
now and you will know what I mean and how
I mean it.

Stephen has been very good, was in
last night, all very re-assuring about the
" proceedings " says R. has not one toe to
stand on and it seems to have done his complex
about Bgt. good too, aired it; he bursts into

screams, slightly hysterical
this to Rvr.

Monday, Oct.

14.

Darling Fido and Rover,

Ktx. has come on nicely two days ahead of date.

I am not worried any more about Pitt or anything like
that. One knows in ones spirit that there ARE certain things
thay can not happen, that can never happen again. Pitt
was all right but like a Cockrain review Lawyer. Such things
are bombast. But parodies can be a bore and Never will
I have anyone, doctor or lawyer speak to me again like
that, I can hear his voice, " own up, own up ... you
might as well tell me of any misconduct, it will
simplify things later. " I know what I feel, that sort
of thing is in a catagory with Mrs. Irwin. I just
said and will say, " THERE IS NOTHING TO OWN UP TO. "
technically
Misconduct ( though a legal term ) is not a word that
enters into ones vibration. Dog is right " " THESE THINGS
DON'T HAPPEN. " It never did any more than Mrs. I.
But all the same ones nerves recoil and one is left
stark spirit, but physically a little jibbering. One/
trembles ... I cried for two days. I got Stephen in
finally who has a rare kind of oriental magnetism. I felt
better, did not tell him everything but he is sound and
very decent and has that Jew power of healing mental

Tuesday.

Oct. 15.

Fido, I enclose two old letters of D. R. that I don't keep and don't know if I should throw away ... you collect ?? Or burn.

I went to ticket bureau to-day. They are reserving through ticket to ZOO for Wed, from here, arrive ZOO Thurs, morning 8.23. There may be a catch about reservation, but I have booked the ticket and unless just can NOT come, WILL COME. I am terribly upset and hope to hear from you, as all my efforts to let place, so far are naught, and I feel that I am very extravagant living on you people, for that it will amount to if I don't let this. However ... it is pretty late to scream about that but I had hoped, now P. is settled, to get more independent. "

The cousin has upset me as he is really rather nice in streaks and had bad war shock and never seems to have recovered. His brother has gone mad and he ( this one ) has had full responsibility etc. And his mother ( you know ) seems to be on her last legs. He is pathetically keyed up here ... but he will sweep me into the past if I am not careful... and it is all so hard so I just went this morning and cut the Gordian gnot ... WILL come unless skies fall for something, leaving here Wed, arrive am ZOO , Thurs. I will NOT go to any parties, I have been rushed here and if I do not get rest, will be ill. I will explain. but warn

Trudy not to vamp me. Say I have had order for book and
have over-worked and the Aldington versus Aldington has
upset me ... or anything. I do not think I can
see mama, there is too much. I feel one more straw will
break the Moggies fur-back.

( ... or

one

more

kick...

Westernfront as they call it, is featured on all
the posters everywhere, great discussions etc. etc.

Cuth seems to be getting away with his bum book,

I will try to write Rvr. as well before evening. I go Fortune
theatre to-night, then I will call off things, I can not
go on this way.

I bought gramaphone box and have packed records, will
proffer the left overs to Eileen.

My darlings, all you will write sustains

Wed. Oct. 16.

Fido dear,

I go to the Gate Theatre on Thurs. night, and I think that is about the last " party. " I am asking Herring to join me and V. H. and the cousin for dinner and Stephen is engineering the party, got the tickets etc. So S. and Herring will meet. Stephen is exquisite to Francis at the party last night. We dined en choinoise and went to see Pekcheoff at the Fortune, so got home late. S. brought two of the most wonderful " types, Mrs. Aldington " from out of Bitter Sweet scene last, those four in a row. One knows Douglas very well, Teddy Wolff in a white stock and a gardenia, the other lives or has lived in Geneva, and wants to come to Herrtet, evidently to see Rvr. Hasulked and was very pretty boy, tall and so awful beyond words. Teddy Wolff was just exotic Jew, rather beautiful, Oppy world; S. says he paints well. But life on ehinoiserie is getting a bit too much even for bin-whiskers so I will come to Berlin to rest. Make it clear that I am having a rest cure after the effects of the gay metropolis. The "ay Bed boy was very supercilious to the Rocky Mountain Cousins and the R. M. C. sniffed at the D.B. B. but S. was exquisite. Tell Dog ... got the few points of the R.M. C. and insisted on this gate party Thurs. That will

clear things and I will spend the rest of the time packing.

I see Eileen on Thurs. for tea. I am sorry about the cousin, really sorry. I think that is the one that Rvr. told me Cross dressed sometimes and I was always rather intrigued. I wish Eileen had told me. I am going to ring her up... is that why, she was so upset that Sunday? She said she had had a women telling her horrors about illness etc. etc. and maybe that was it. PooD boy, I trust it was nothing " lingering. " I sound cold blooded but am not... anything but. And the cousin relationship is a queer thing, insinuous if you knew them in child-hood. Tell Rvr. I am sorry.

Buddy returned a Negro book. I will bring it. It looks fascinating. I don't dare open it here.

The maid told me just now when I rang up that he had gone to South Hampton to see his brother off.... poor Buddy....

More later, darlings. I wish Rvr. would write me a line. I will be am 200 as agreed, D. V., on Thurs. next.

Luv and luv and luv to Rvr.

Sat.

Darling Fido,

I am going out just as soon as it is eleven (I stay
in always as you know for calls etc.) to get the Razor dog
blades and the cigarettes for Dr. S. I am so happy
you are no worse. Thank Rvr. for his letter. I am so happy and will
come, as I repeat ad nauseam. I was rather sick about
flat but after all, it has been an impetus to get lights etc.
Maybe Fish thought I was getting a bit slack, the flat is
light and pretty. I found I could get five times the strength
bulbs for the rooms and it has made all the difference; I
type as if by bright day light and the hall looks different. I
am having the lights on stairs at last and Mr. Parrett has done some
extra bolts on the upstairs trap doors etc. etc. The little
place is most habitable and possibly if I don't sub-let, there
will be a use for it. I only feel so awful sometimes about
spending so much good dog money.

I will post this way to the office where I go
first thing to get my ticket finally and completely.

I am happy you like the place and I do look forward to being
there. I am writing to Puss again with this about my " going to
Paris " and " seeing the dogs soon en Suisse. " I have not
been near mama. I heard from Eileen she was a but
all over the place, nothing special, but on the war path and
a martyr as no one would go with her to Indies or wherever

it is. She confides in Eileen, " what does John do
with himself? Do you think he is getting into the
hands of the wrong sort of people? etc., etc. So Eileen feels
awful and tries to act like a hired thung ... and she says
she could't stand that undiluted on a boat all day and
all night. Stephen liked Mr. Edwards. ( He met him at
4 Clarence that day. ) He likes Eileen but says " she
suffers by being Kenneth's sister. " He has the
greatest tact however about all these people, he has helped
me so with the cousin who is a great stage friend and Stephen
knows a lot of those people. S. has been very good
and talks much of Dog and small dog too whom he realizes
has a nose that is a bit repealed by the Stephen.

I am coming. O my dear " leetle, leeta peeeple. " I
had a choice note from a Greek whic will bring. She
thought K. ( on the street ' was looking puffed out and
prosperous, he had grown so gross and heavy. You might
think K. was a sort of Chesterton. And so on. But funny ...
and K. is a star and what not ... etc. ... mixed stinkaphor.

Darlings ... pray for old

P.S. I will write, this is haste. Luvvvvvvvvv....
P.P.S. The G. has lost her job at Peter Jones. And is trying to get me
to get S. to get her translating ... but he had one sniff and

Thursday.

I enclose from Buddy. He seems to have shunk right back to
his mother-matrix. I can't do anything. I asked him to
jpin us at Gate to-night, but he has called up and wept.
The black aura, I suppose, is authentic. I mean I am really
very, very, very sorry ... but what good does that do ?????
You better write him. I would try some rescue work, but myself
is all I can manage at the moment.

I see Stephen for tea, then we got to Buckingham Street for
dinner, meet Vbolet and the Wolle and then on to Gate where we
pick up Eileen. I am done after to-day getting anybody to meet
anybody.

I am terribly upset as there was no letter last night from
you and none this morning. I suppose maybe it's the Sunday ( some
way back. I don't know what I will do if there is nothing
when I get in, about mid-night to-night. I will probably wire.
Tell Rvr. to send me a line. I feel horribly cut off, in a way,
I can't visualize Rover. He seems to have vanished into thin air.
What is he doing ???? Are your tails tied in the usual love
knot or are you getting alienated ???? I will be with you, D. V.,
I repeat, on the Thurs. morning.

For Gawd's sake ... write.

Write

Monday after tea.

Darling Fido,

Thank you first for the Pup' letter. Could anyth
be more reassuring ??? I am sorry about the boils but
I can't see what we can do. I suppose it will be
all right, as there WAS a period when we all had the
in the Beaver's family. Nothing was done for us.
I suppose the " epidemic " lasted about four
months. It sometimes happens so I won't
worry. But I think it a " sign from Fish " that
maybe she will be better in this sane and
wholesome atmosphere for a time at anyrate. The
hours seem very bad\y but they get up early. I
love her programme of hours and minutes. That
watch makes all the difference to her.

I had a bit of phobe at first but have shaken down
now. I am not alone much as agents send people
up the stairs at all hours. I am expecting one
now and one came at noon. I have not heard of
the prosperous gent, but he may have had worda
with Harrods who did not want me to sub-let for

less than £5 and told him if it was 6 months, I would make it 4 and a half. Anyhow, there seems no dearth of applicants and I will just leave it to Fisk, keeping alert and up to the minute myself. I have more or less trial-packed. All the place is in good order. I will write like Pdta. from quarter to quarter hour of progress. I called up Lbtry. who say they sent dress. I made a great scream and said they themselves must write to that effect at once to the Matron. You better drop them both lines, as I said this MUST be seen to as I was going away. If you have any special instruction, wire.

Thank Rvr. for message in your good letter. I have been rushed with Oppy, Stephen and a Gregg visitation. I will think ofer " mama ", I suppose now you are gone she wants " diversion. " I will see what seems " indicated. "

Enclosed paper sent by the office boy. I hear
from Stephen, tell Dog, that he does want to come
with me, Monday. The Gregg is trying to
cadge a ticket from Ave. Pav. as she
reviews films for some Peter Kones-y sort
of papers. Scarborough gets 2300 a year at some
job. I will write this dirt to Dog as it is
not fit for your chaste years.

Love darling Fido,

Thanks so much for blue stamps. I have
floated my first autumn anemonietops in the fish tank.

Sat. afternoon.

I met Mrs. Paul in the office this morning. She sent you this note : " Can the Film BORDERLINE be rented by us ( Mersey-Side Film Society ) direct through you or will it be taken up by Atlas Film. I should like to have information as soon as possible. Has it passed the Censor. We are in a position to show uncensored Films. Mrs. Paul, Mersey-Side Film Society. "

I simply transcribe the note, written on the back of an envelope of stills. Will you deal. She was very keen about the stills, especially of " Bryher. " Of course I told her it has " passed " but you better let her have official details. I told her what I could of the work.

Now another thing. I am very mad. I signed the lease for Mataxa yesterday, went and got my ticket for Mon. , the 27th . Just now, I have a note from Nellie, saying Peter J. called me up to say Mr. Mataxa might alter his plan entirely and they would not know till Tuesday. This makes me a little mad.

In any case, he will not want the flat till a week later. Now what to do ???? I will leave it, I judge till Tues. , then change the ticket or not as seems advisable. Of course, it may be a " fish " thing, if the flat is empty, I might come back here for Xmas, do some more Film propaganda, have people in and

IF I stay the extra week I can get
clothes from the little tailor and also
get my prick... there is that. I will
ask "fish" ... but you help too.

ALSO, IF I stay, I will see the
publisher... maybe. Publicity anyhow...

out, talk and do publicity. What do you
" see " ? There is no use asking, I know, yet somehow, it
was such a blow on the head, after the trouble, the man in
here, the signing of the papers, getting ticket etc. etc.
It is a horro' too, to me to spend practically every cent
I have on an empty flat, yet the place is pretty and
seems to collect people and ideas, maybe we are " meant" to
have it as a foothold here, now especially as the
film is doing so well. I am on the telephone all the time. I
love it, but so look forward to getting off Mon.

However ... I suppose I must just wait and see and maybe, in
the last few days, let it to someone else, quite
other. I know I must not fuss and worry but it is
so exhausting ... I am rather concerned with
Eileen, she looks so small and thin. I wondered if it would
do her any good to be here in this place ... yet it
is lonely for a person like that. Well, you advise me.

I got off a registered packet of stills to K. I paid and
demanded professional reduction, I got 5 shillings off the
bill. I like the principal of the thing and also all this sort
of thing is " publicity " here and there.

I will write a separate note to K. about the Greece. She
and Eileen and I had a good old Billingsgate evening.

Darling thank you both for the comforting little
telegram.

Love darlings,

Sun. before lunch.
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How far away you seem, dearest Fido. I see
you cleaning cages and cleaning cages and
CLEANING CAGES. I can't see any thing in
perspective, whatever that is. I see rows of Fido and
rows of red paws and rows of carrots and architraves
of gibbons-oses and more Fido and then a
pair of fur-spectacles set on a cat-nose, then
a gold-fish going round and round A N D round. And I
wonder where I come in ... save to eat the gold fish, and I
can't do that. O would but that I were a Gamain. Where is
Kenneth???? Where is Meg ???? I am all this and tother and
the other way with. I have, by the way, got the
skiv now who turn out the Social Bureau, to turn me out,
at least, she seems anxious to come all next week. I will
keep her on as unofficial caretaker and give the keys
over to Egon.... but, O, O, O, it would be S O nice if a dog
or a rover would just say " I love you Meg, come back, Meg. "
I don't seem to have any touch or itch with any dog there
at all. What is it all about ?????? I guess you wonder too.

I go to Matthews to-morrow. I see Stephen and before that
O. B. on Tues. I see Oppy Kuhl on Wed., Oppy on Thurs.,
and I have written ( actually ) to a publisher who
may come one of those days. I may come back for Xmas if
the flat is not let, in order to let it. £160 a
year for a flat one inhabits two months, is N O T

good enough.

Will ONE of the dogs descend to the human plane and just say I F a cat exists in ANY plane for any dog ???? Maybe I am a jealous meg of all those fur-hands.

WR I T E .... Fide, I live for your letters, one day, religiously.

Love always and always,

Mon. after lunch.

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I have got the Pup everything but the candles, see
enclosed, and will try for them again later. Will
you please, Fido, answer this letter ???? Time I
was a " struggling artist ", this sort of thing is
heaping grave stones on my reputation of a person
and a Doorn.

I had prick this morning. Dr. M. was very nice but
just as I was leaving, he said, " ah... ah... I see
a good review of your husband's work in the
paper. " I turn and say, " ah ... ah... yes... but there
are so many other things to do. I have not time
to follow reviews in newspapers. " He did not ask of
you all. I guess he will use Cuthbert now as his
scapnel. Howsoever... he did me a good prick and I
go again on Mon., a week from to-day. My ticket is
now in Cooks hands. I did not specify exact date, as
I will wait till the next prick and travel as soon
as poss., afterwards. Also... let me know what I can
do in any way ?????

I am feeling a little limp, so will just drop this
in box, to thank you for yours, so good to hear
from Suisse, so quick too. Fri., you left Mon., I
hear .... good, good Dog and Dandog.

The latest from the Gregg is that the " pamphlet " will
be K. of any chance to stand on his feet and that

film now, so much as the misguided judgement of the
" adulation. " She has apparently herself written
or got someone to write , a squib in the Chronicle, saying
that this film, is not " the real Macpherson. , " I have not
seen the squib, she akkod Eileen if she had. I told
El. I thought Gregg herself had written it, as she
gets oddments to do now and then on film and theatre.
She is a retrogressive arriviste. She said, when she saw
Earth, this is pure beaauuuuuty. Now if K. would work like
this. " One, that is vieux jeu, to, it was US who
" discovered " this sort of things years back;
three, Egon and I were left oddly cold by the
slow vibration of the thing, the
redundance of great etched peasant faces, the general
rythm. Big, I say and marvelous, but I say and E. says,
there is an overtone, a subtelty, a process of
dynamics in Border that you find nowhere else. However,
Rever, I apologize if my " adulation " has blighted
your bud of movie possibilities.

Love, pet and pet. I am a little limp but taking care
of myself. I won't go out again today, Eileen calls me
up and I call her up, twice and more daily.

Love, darlings, I am so homesick for you and Suisse.

I will try to see Buddy but don't know when nor how.

I refuse to use the telephone to him, sir.

Tues. morning.

I have your good letter, dear Fido, with check
for £ 3. Thank you. I will-attend to the
commissions in time, perhaps this morning. I hear
from Kuhl who comes about 6. 30 and wants to do
the work. As Matthews said he would prefer not to
prick me within the week, that means another
reason for delay. I got the prick Mon. as
stated. Then I will hurry along the clothes, go
on with the flat, tidy up here and there with film, and
come, if you think right, the Mon. following, as
outlined in last letter. I MAY come sooner. But I
put it that way, as that is an exact date, and
I feel I may work better TOWARD a date. If I feel
better to-morrow, I will write the Chatto man and have
an interview about my work. I feel a little
sick to-day but it is the prick working out. Stephen
came in and was really rather illuminating about
the film. It seems he and Bigge, in some queer way, get
it but of course all the things S. and Bigge like are the
ones the Gregg eritizes. That film seems to cut people
in half. S. objected to some of the outdoors (HOW
COULD HE ????) to Charlie, who he and Bigge said had
stepped off a Hollywood set and had no right in the
show as "intellectual, advance work" or words to that
effect. S. did not like Gamain and the fish. Gregg
leathed all the cafe which S. and Bigge thought the best

2.

work into show ( more or less ) but wanted to
eliminate Charlie. They all seem to think that
there was not enough Robeson, which of. course I
have explained until I am silly. The whole thing is :
the DYNAMICS get across, for better or worse. We will
feel free now to rest a year, I think.

rune-in

I am glad Rover is running. I will, too, when ( if ) I
ever get back. D. V., I will tidy up my entire lot
of stuff, then make a clean beginning. I may even
work on a scenario, toward some future date. Maybe in
a year or 18 months time. I am with K. there. Rest, rest.
So, was quite clever about " placing " K. and the work but
he is like everyone else, sliding and sliding. Not that I
blame them ... HOW CAN THEY SEE ???? ?? But on the whole,
the film has been a terrific sort of cerebral bomb and the
effect is funny and would be more fun if I were not so do-gone
tired and worn out and now sick with prick.

Eileen is in bed with a little grippe. Pop called me up.
I will call up now in a few minutes and report on Eileen.
Pop, was very sweet on the phone and brought up
Luity and the gulls. It was nice of him to call up, I think
Egon told him to, as she could not. I will try again
to see Lady Clarence.

I enclose the card from the photographs. That
name is the man who gives reduction and we are to mention
him in the case of more big work. I enclose the
post office quib for registering register
of photographs. I send a page of something mad, will K. tell
me what it all means ? I mean the numerology ... but no, I

don't think that at all important. However... for a joke.

Gregg loathed Charlie in the film and said K. was
" condescending to show the mob a mob-idea of
a bar-maid. " Etc. Etc. Etc.

I think I will call up V. Hunt and Florida and Oppy and
O. B., ALL of whom are invited here to tea to-morrow. I
I ???
think I can not bear it, and why should I???
Peir is all right for a joke with K ... but in a crowd!!
I think I'll call it all off ... AND HOW.

I have called up Oppy and V. H. ... must now get a call of F. R.
F. Pier.

I called up Egon and got Pop. He says she is up and better.
I told him to look after her and she him. I will call
Up Egon later again.

I will close this now darlings. Remember, I am
weak BUT WITH GOOD PRICK. Tell me you
understand about Mon. week 222222 More later if Poss.
( terrible thing that Poss. , I can't resist it and always
think of Watson with her Poss . and Mags. )

Friday afternoon.

Hallowe'en.

I bought myself a ring with the signs of the zodiac on it, a thing I wanted all my life. As a little gilly, I used to listen to my father tell of a ring he saw at Niagara falls (of all places) lying in a cravice of the rock, and he wanted it (the only time I ever heard him mention wanting a gadget'). He gave it to the keeper at the gate or something ... and I used to dream of that ring. Today I saw some " from the African coast ", just ordinary round rings, most too big, and I got one, for Helga Deern and her marriage to the " STARS ". Do you approve ?????. It being as well, Hallowe'en, the same day as that shell was left at my door in California ...

But to more practical matters. I have said good-bye to most, am trying to see Lady M. at the office to-morrow, saw Egon this morning and went over all the boxes, found only ONE of pos. while I will bring. Egon seems better but has a horrid raching cough. She seems to want to stick on the John, so I do not urge Monte nor Suisse... just tell her we are THERE, if she wants us.

It may comeback hereif the film if to be projected ... anyhow, I do NOT like this collar lessing. No, I do not like being away from DANDOG.

I leave D. V., as per arrangement, Sun. The Parrot came

Monday.

Eide darling, General Electric put me on
to people called Watson, who are sending you full
particulars. I thought that was better... xzther they
seemed to think so. You can easily write that you
had expected to come to London but health ( or
something ) compels you to stay in Suisse. They
were very nice and went to no end of trouble and I, the
same, though it was fun ... but you know. You can
write them and say you are kept in Suisse or
delayed or something. They are posting you their
catalogues etc..

I was so rattled that I bought a lump of towels ( rubbers)
and have lost them. It is just possible that Nellie
took them home to wash them or something but I am
quite baffled as I got them at the Linnen Shops a day
came direct home. Unless possibly I stepped into
Jury and Barrett, I will go and inquire. But never
have I been so baffled as it was a large lump and I
paid for them, out of that check, some of it.

I am so depressed about that, that I have not got the
... table cloths yet. I got the rubber gloves and needles,
the are already packed with some gum drops for
you, in memory of the studio. I have no present for
Rover unless the carbolic soap may be considered.

I adored having a real letter for Rover. Thank him. I will perhaps write later as this is in a hurry, en route for the doctor. I am so happy, Mrs. Ash (lovely name) has actually turned up and is kicking up no end of dust upstairs. She come again Wed., and then every day this week till I go and I have hired her to come in once a week, to see that pipes etc. are not busted. I think it worth the ten bob a month or whatever it comes to, I told her 2/6 a week for general janitor work.

Then if the place is not let by Xmas, perhaps you and the Ash, could get out dust sheets and just cover the thing as I used to do, winters. I think that is the best plan.

Cole came in with Jerald. I got him tipsy with cognac (not the old bottle) and he was quite affable. They would be all right, like so many people, with £1000 a year. He is not half as bad as I had been led to believe. Or perhaps a certain sort of respect for the film, got around me. I am so tired, to use Rover's excellent word of this "port" attitude, Stephen, Buddy, I do not count the G., as she was simply Dante's circles of inferno, rather funny really. No... do not scold me about that. That was just a little psychic sulphur water ... brimstone and a purge.

More later, angels,