And very beautiful! Spare us, good Lord! Is it not
pleasant, dearly beloved brethern, to have found the
pastures of peace, the haven of rest on the bosom of
the Lord ? I feel, long ago, yes- what a
blessing we did not see this paragon when we were 20 or
when we were 30! He wears complete highland
uniform... and Br says when he looks old and tired, while
is almost never, he is like a Goya. All this from Bryher!
Now Mrs. M. seems to find great pleasure in our
simple home... I don't know how long she will stay. If
only I had more ENERGY!
But three cheers for Bryher... home from the highlands
though her heart is not here!
All in confidence, with love,

Sept. 5.

George my dear,

Isn't life just too damn funny? Br came back unexpectedly, yesterday. I never know what she tells anyone about her doings- do maybe she did or did not tell you. Well... she scraped up the letters this morning and rushed in, "here is one for you from George" and I have said I have mislaid it, as she was gaping to read it. O... life should not be allowed to get to this state. Do you know, it is a terrible confession, but I think I am home-sick for USA? I do thank you for your letter and all in it. I really have only glanced at it. With Br and some others, it is so easy to go to States, as they simply are in N.Y. and stay there, but I am not a N.Y. person. It is far more alien to me than Paris, Berlin or Rome ever were- and they are all so different. I think it is the over-head feeling ... anyhow, it isn't as if I were making tracks for ONE town. However, all that is, as you say, as GOD sees fit. It will be arranged somehow. But I never felt alien or really home-sick in England before-something seems to have "gone", really "gone". Truly, I know we carry our own light within ourselves- and you have been back an inch to USA through the years, ... however... all this very disjointed, dear George, just to thank you. When I do make any sort of plan, I will write you for that address you speak of. I like islands but find them a bit too "majic", too "enchanting", they un-floor me or up-root me and I want to get back to bed-rock.

What did you finally do about taking out British
papers ? I do think you should NOT now. Stay USA.
There is a very odd feeling now about people and things ; Br
says the upper-classes are pro-USA, the lower pro-Russian, and
the middle( although they do not knowmit) pro-German. It is very
clever of Br. and very true. I think she had a terrible
dose of Mr.( or Major) Long down there. He acted very
Gestapo-ish, from what she tells me- that is what Br means by
the middle taking on the Nazi idealogology really, though they do
not knowmit .. However, you are in another world and in another
sort of circle- but there IS that! Why change over
to British when all the best-British are taking on the
USA view-point ?

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Just now a long talk with Br., she is very wise and comforting.
She says, she thinks USA will, this year, just have caught
up to our blitz-period without the stimulation and
excitement of the real blitz to carry them through. She
thinks, in her prophetic way, that about NEXT autumn,
there will be a return in USA to normal, or more than that,
a sort of general renaissance. I think she may be right.
That would give me, give "us", a full year to think and
plan in. I do envy you your home there, and know how
you feel about it; but I imagine in a year's time, you
will be ready for a change, too. How you do deserve a rest
and complete change. I think my mood is a hang-over
of the terrible blitz time, too. And it's so much better to
be able to express myself- there is the chaotic, chaotic
change-over of consciousness, world-wide, and one pan not

September 9.

Dear George,

I do, do thank you. There is something of the look of the Mosher page and the set of the type that fills me with real elation- it makes things COME TRUE, as they did, in some odd perspective when I first was introduced to the volumes by foxy old Ezra. I wish I now knew just whom ones I had- I know there was a lovely Tristram and Iseult one or one of the Arthurian legends- would you know? I would give a great deal to have it now or to be able to see it. Do you know- or could you find out- if there is the whole lot of Mosher books anywhere that one could turn over? I did tell you, I looked him up- very daring- on a retrnr trip from Bayley's island one summer? A portly, kindly gent without a coat, a hot summer day, and a nice wood-frame building with practically no furniture and long wood tables piled high with his books. What a person! Was there ever any little brochures published about him? Maybe Alice would know- I suppose he linked on, really, to the Wm. Morris people? I only just thought of it that way- but I suppose Kelmscott's spelling) must have started him. I just now had a letter from Cole who is with Doris and Doris had her listen-in to Ezra- said it was very clever and very poisonous. I have never listened-in, heard a good deal about it, from Cornelia who took him in her stride when she was at B.B.C. foreign broadcast section. People ask me WHY? The article I spoke of which has