Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection // Vault

The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937), Robert Graves (1895-1985), James Joyce (1882-1941), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), as well as writers who produced work following WWII, such as Aidan Higgins (1927-2015), identified as late modernists or influenced by modernism.

Intellectuals and artists affiliated with parallel movements in other disciplines during the same period, such as modern art, are also found in this collection, as seen in the correspondence of Herbert Read (1893-1968) and photography of Gisèle Freund (1908-2000).

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1891. Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool

Title:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_03_enc.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool The Playhouse. Liverpool. Dear Robert, Thankyou so very much for the two lovely letters. I am probably not half as busy as you but I still find finding time to write, a great problem. Anyway, here I am at my typwriter (which I have aquired at the cost of £2 to write a play on) and although I am feeling a bit like a very old water-colour I will tell you what goes on. Since my first letter to you everything has got better and better. I have never been so happy in my life. This must be the very best way of living. Lots of work, lots of fun, which costs nothing, every chance of being the very best sort of person, and—this is the happy thought— I get paid for it too. If this isn't luck, I'd like to know what is. In the theatre I am a minor success. My first part, that of a dumb Swede who i was the janator's janitor's wife of a l slum tenement on the east-side of New York, was, to everybody's intense suprise as it is the most insignificent part in Street Scene) a major success! I got all the notices and William (Armstrong) was delighted. Here is a picture of me. I hope you like it. But in the next part they gave me was much too difficult for me and I only just escaped being bad. It was a big part in the Priestley play Time and the Conways (about the Dunn theory of Time) and I had to be 18 in the first and third Acts and 45 in the middle Act. This is a tricky businessbeing 45 years, its easy enough in charades when everybody knows that you are only dressed-up but in a real play you have to be and thats that's whats what's so difficult. Still I did get quite good by the last week (we run plays for three weeks here) and William was again pleased. Since then I have been out of two plays which have only had old women in them and have been for a short holiday and—this is again the happy thought—I got paid for that too. But apart from this I have not been idle. I have written a children's play (this is uncommon difficult) and called it Monday Tuesday and Bert. There was a great deal of talk about them doing it up here but in the end they couldn't afford to spend any money on the Christmas play, because they only run it for matineés, and mine had three sets. Wasn't that a pity, because it would have meant nearly £100 to buy Xmas preants presents with. Still, I find that it can be made much better so I am rewriting the third Act and will try it in London next year, perhaps. Also I am writing a one-Act play as I have been so encouraged by William who thinks that I ought to be able to write a good play one day. I say “why not now??? but he shakes his head; all th same I still say "why not know?["] Apart from the theatre and play-writing I find everything just as hotsy totsy. The place that I live in is a good dream. It is just like home, in fact. It is all painted different colours and the man and his wife who run it (a most intelligent pair) have made it a lovely place to live in. They slosh paint about very happily all day long and in between times cook marvelous food for us. Some of the Playhouse people are here and the rest are Architectural students -all young. They have given me my own bottle of Tomatoe Tomato ketchup and I am blissful. Of social life up here I have partaken a great deal. The people of Liverpool I find more intelligent than the normal run in London. Thank goodness. I get asked to Wine and Food society dinners, rag and bone dances, tea parties and Sunday lunch. I eat a lot more than I should and am not retaining my figure in consequence but it dosn't matter because I have found a very good dancing school up here that will give me lessons free for the advertisment. Isn't that good? At the present moment I am rehearsing very hard indeed for Bonnet Over The Windmill (and a play with more middle-class dialogue it would be hard to imagine). All the nice characters are so tiresome that I am ver glad that I am playig the nasty one and can be rude to them all. Awfull shame they should have misinformed you about my red coat, not cloak, because it is a Flora Offna and suits me down to the knees. Who is your Liverpool Informant? One, Peter Neil and myself hope that it is nothing so dull as mere Durants Press cuttings. Perhaps a little Liverpool bird told you There is one missing from the top of the Town Hall so it might be flapping its green cast- iorn iron wings over Brittany. Incidently you would like one, Peter Neil. My one quarrel with him is that he likes Gone With the Wind, but he counteracts this, they tell me, by reading the Times Leader in the Bath bath . Query from Up-a-Gum-Tree —Liverpool[:] “Does this really excuse him for liking Gone With the Wind?” But apart from this he is far from being in any way C.3. He plays the leading parts up here and can thump his chest among the best Tarzans. Also he is scupulously scrupulously honest. ( unfortunatly unfortunately I havn't haven't exclamatoin exclamation marks on this typwriter typewriter ) Except, it seems about tooth-paste about which he has very socialist ideas about. He is often approached about his share and share alike attitude (which he substantiates by providing one tube of Macleans per Annnum and when it runs out, claims that it is the work of Someone in the Bathroom and uses someone ele 's Pepsodent from then on) But he evades all attempts of people to reason with him and by telling them that he once had a pet Jackdaw that used to peck holes in the tooth-paste so that when you sqeezed it, it shot out of an unexpected hole down the front of your dressing gown. Which dosn't prove anything really. And is a very poor excuse. I have been given, by someone in the Company, the Faber and Faber collection of poems, in which there are some very good ones of yours and Laura's. I spent the short holiday I And first with Diccon and then in London. Diccon's was Lovely but I hated London. In fact I came back here three days early on a very fast train. I am to be painted be Augustus John in the near future. David, I hear, is already playing Rugger for his 1st eleven at Jesus. He was sighted in London when they came up to play some team or other, which they beat. Jolly clever isn't he? Christmas is a-coming and the geese are getting fat. Dammit. It is bitterly cold up here and I am wearing two overcoats which makes me so heavy that I am wearing the soles of my shoes away. But I don't worry much. Theres There's nothing much more to say, except that C.N. writes me very cheerful letters and wrote to me today to tell me that Mother's exibition exhibition is very good indeed, and a great success. So as there is very little else, I wiill get back to the One-act thriller I am writing called:– Somebody Else's Shoes. Very Best Love tot yourself and Laura. I hope you are both well and Happy. Love Jenny xxxx.
Technical Note:: 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.

1892. Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool

Title:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_03_enc.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool The Playhouse. Liverpool. Dear Robert, Thankyou so very much for the two lovely letters. I am probably not half as busy as you but I still find finding time to write, a great problem. Anyway, here I am at my typwriter (which I have aquired at the cost of £2 to write a play on) and although I am feeling a bit like a very old water-colour I will tell you what goes on. Since my first letter to you everything has got better and better. I have never been so happy in my life. This must be the very best way of living. Lots of work, lots of fun, which costs nothing, every chance of being the very best sort of person, and—this is the happy thought— I get paid for it too. If this isn't luck, I'd like to know what is. In the theatre I am a minor success. My first part, that of a dumb Swede who i was the janator's janitor's wife of a l slum tenement on the east-side of New York, was, to everybody's intense suprise as it is the most insignificent part in Street Scene) a major success! I got all the notices and William (Armstrong) was delighted. Here is a picture of me. I hope you like it. But in the next part they gave me was much too difficult for me and I only just escaped being bad. It was a big part in the Priestley play Time and the Conways (about the Dunn theory of Time) and I had to be 18 in the first and third Acts and 45 in the middle Act. This is a tricky businessbeing 45 years, its easy enough in charades when everybody knows that you are only dressed-up but in a real play you have to be and thats that's whats what's so difficult. Still I did get quite good by the last week (we run plays for three weeks here) and William was again pleased. Since then I have been out of two plays which have only had old women in them and have been for a short holiday and—this is again the happy thought—I got paid for that too. But apart from this I have not been idle. I have written a children's play (this is uncommon difficult) and called it Monday Tuesday and Bert. There was a great deal of talk about them doing it up here but in the end they couldn't afford to spend any money on the Christmas play, because they only run it for matineés, and mine had three sets. Wasn't that a pity, because it would have meant nearly £100 to buy Xmas preants presents with. Still, I find that it can be made much better so I am rewriting the third Act and will try it in London next year, perhaps. Also I am writing a one-Act play as I have been so encouraged by William who thinks that I ought to be able to write a good play one day. I say “why not now??? but he shakes his head; all th same I still say "why not know?["] Apart from the theatre and play-writing I find everything just as hotsy totsy. The place that I live in is a good dream. It is just like home, in fact. It is all painted different colours and the man and his wife who run it (a most intelligent pair) have made it a lovely place to live in. They slosh paint about very happily all day long and in between times cook marvelous food for us. Some of the Playhouse people are here and the rest are Architectural students -all young. They have given me my own bottle of Tomatoe Tomato ketchup and I am blissful. Of social life up here I have partaken a great deal. The people of Liverpool I find more intelligent than the normal run in London. Thank goodness. I get asked to Wine and Food society dinners, rag and bone dances, tea parties and Sunday lunch. I eat a lot more than I should and am not retaining my figure in consequence but it dosn't matter because I have found a very good dancing school up here that will give me lessons free for the advertisment. Isn't that good? At the present moment I am rehearsing very hard indeed for Bonnet Over The Windmill (and a play with more middle-class dialogue it would be hard to imagine). All the nice characters are so tiresome that I am ver glad that I am playig the nasty one and can be rude to them all. Awfull shame they should have misinformed you about my red coat, not cloak, because it is a Flora Offna and suits me down to the knees. Who is your Liverpool Informant? One, Peter Neil and myself hope that it is nothing so dull as mere Durants Press cuttings. Perhaps a little Liverpool bird told you There is one missing from the top of the Town Hall so it might be flapping its green cast- iorn iron wings over Brittany. Incidently you would like one, Peter Neil. My one quarrel with him is that he likes Gone With the Wind, but he counteracts this, they tell me, by reading the Times Leader in the Bath bath . Query from Up-a-Gum-Tree —Liverpool[:] “Does this really excuse him for liking Gone With the Wind?” But apart from this he is far from being in any way C.3. He plays the leading parts up here and can thump his chest among the best Tarzans. Also he is scupulously scrupulously honest. ( unfortunatly unfortunately I havn't haven't exclamatoin exclamation marks on this typwriter typewriter ) Except, it seems about tooth-paste about which he has very socialist ideas about. He is often approached about his share and share alike attitude (which he substantiates by providing one tube of Macleans per Annnum and when it runs out, claims that it is the work of Someone in the Bathroom and uses someone ele 's Pepsodent from then on) But he evades all attempts of people to reason with him and by telling them that he once had a pet Jackdaw that used to peck holes in the tooth-paste so that when you sqeezed it, it shot out of an unexpected hole down the front of your dressing gown. Which dosn't prove anything really. And is a very poor excuse. I have been given, by someone in the Company, the Faber and Faber collection of poems, in which there are some very good ones of yours and Laura's. I spent the short holiday I And first with Diccon and then in London. Diccon's was Lovely but I hated London. In fact I came back here three days early on a very fast train. I am to be painted be Augustus John in the near future. David, I hear, is already playing Rugger for his 1st eleven at Jesus. He was sighted in London when they came up to play some team or other, which they beat. Jolly clever isn't he? Christmas is a-coming and the geese are getting fat. Dammit. It is bitterly cold up here and I am wearing two overcoats which makes me so heavy that I am wearing the soles of my shoes away. But I don't worry much. Theres There's nothing much more to say, except that C.N. writes me very cheerful letters and wrote to me today to tell me that Mother's exibition exhibition is very good indeed, and a great success. So as there is very little else, I wiill get back to the One-act thriller I am writing called:– Somebody Else's Shoes. Very Best Love tot yourself and Laura. I hope you are both well and Happy. Love Jenny xxxx.
Technical Note:: 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.

1893. Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool

Title:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_03_enc.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool The Playhouse. Liverpool. Dear Robert, Thankyou so very much for the two lovely letters. I am probably not half as busy as you but I still find finding time to write, a great problem. Anyway, here I am at my typwriter (which I have aquired at the cost of £2 to write a play on) and although I am feeling a bit like a very old water-colour I will tell you what goes on. Since my first letter to you everything has got better and better. I have never been so happy in my life. This must be the very best way of living. Lots of work, lots of fun, which costs nothing, every chance of being the very best sort of person, and—this is the happy thought— I get paid for it too. If this isn't luck, I'd like to know what is. In the theatre I am a minor success. My first part, that of a dumb Swede who i was the janator's janitor's wife of a l slum tenement on the east-side of New York, was, to everybody's intense suprise as it is the most insignificent part in Street Scene) a major success! I got all the notices and William (Armstrong) was delighted. Here is a picture of me. I hope you like it. But in the next part they gave me was much too difficult for me and I only just escaped being bad. It was a big part in the Priestley play Time and the Conways (about the Dunn theory of Time) and I had to be 18 in the first and third Acts and 45 in the middle Act. This is a tricky businessbeing 45 years, its easy enough in charades when everybody knows that you are only dressed-up but in a real play you have to be and thats that's whats what's so difficult. Still I did get quite good by the last week (we run plays for three weeks here) and William was again pleased. Since then I have been out of two plays which have only had old women in them and have been for a short holiday and—this is again the happy thought—I got paid for that too. But apart from this I have not been idle. I have written a children's play (this is uncommon difficult) and called it Monday Tuesday and Bert. There was a great deal of talk about them doing it up here but in the end they couldn't afford to spend any money on the Christmas play, because they only run it for matineés, and mine had three sets. Wasn't that a pity, because it would have meant nearly £100 to buy Xmas preants presents with. Still, I find that it can be made much better so I am rewriting the third Act and will try it in London next year, perhaps. Also I am writing a one-Act play as I have been so encouraged by William who thinks that I ought to be able to write a good play one day. I say “why not now??? but he shakes his head; all th same I still say "why not know?["] Apart from the theatre and play-writing I find everything just as hotsy totsy. The place that I live in is a good dream. It is just like home, in fact. It is all painted different colours and the man and his wife who run it (a most intelligent pair) have made it a lovely place to live in. They slosh paint about very happily all day long and in between times cook marvelous food for us. Some of the Playhouse people are here and the rest are Architectural students -all young. They have given me my own bottle of Tomatoe Tomato ketchup and I am blissful. Of social life up here I have partaken a great deal. The people of Liverpool I find more intelligent than the normal run in London. Thank goodness. I get asked to Wine and Food society dinners, rag and bone dances, tea parties and Sunday lunch. I eat a lot more than I should and am not retaining my figure in consequence but it dosn't matter because I have found a very good dancing school up here that will give me lessons free for the advertisment. Isn't that good? At the present moment I am rehearsing very hard indeed for Bonnet Over The Windmill (and a play with more middle-class dialogue it would be hard to imagine). All the nice characters are so tiresome that I am ver glad that I am playig the nasty one and can be rude to them all. Awfull shame they should have misinformed you about my red coat, not cloak, because it is a Flora Offna and suits me down to the knees. Who is your Liverpool Informant? One, Peter Neil and myself hope that it is nothing so dull as mere Durants Press cuttings. Perhaps a little Liverpool bird told you There is one missing from the top of the Town Hall so it might be flapping its green cast- iorn iron wings over Brittany. Incidently you would like one, Peter Neil. My one quarrel with him is that he likes Gone With the Wind, but he counteracts this, they tell me, by reading the Times Leader in the Bath bath . Query from Up-a-Gum-Tree —Liverpool[:] “Does this really excuse him for liking Gone With the Wind?” But apart from this he is far from being in any way C.3. He plays the leading parts up here and can thump his chest among the best Tarzans. Also he is scupulously scrupulously honest. ( unfortunatly unfortunately I havn't haven't exclamatoin exclamation marks on this typwriter typewriter ) Except, it seems about tooth-paste about which he has very socialist ideas about. He is often approached about his share and share alike attitude (which he substantiates by providing one tube of Macleans per Annnum and when it runs out, claims that it is the work of Someone in the Bathroom and uses someone ele 's Pepsodent from then on) But he evades all attempts of people to reason with him and by telling them that he once had a pet Jackdaw that used to peck holes in the tooth-paste so that when you sqeezed it, it shot out of an unexpected hole down the front of your dressing gown. Which dosn't prove anything really. And is a very poor excuse. I have been given, by someone in the Company, the Faber and Faber collection of poems, in which there are some very good ones of yours and Laura's. I spent the short holiday I And first with Diccon and then in London. Diccon's was Lovely but I hated London. In fact I came back here three days early on a very fast train. I am to be painted be Augustus John in the near future. David, I hear, is already playing Rugger for his 1st eleven at Jesus. He was sighted in London when they came up to play some team or other, which they beat. Jolly clever isn't he? Christmas is a-coming and the geese are getting fat. Dammit. It is bitterly cold up here and I am wearing two overcoats which makes me so heavy that I am wearing the soles of my shoes away. But I don't worry much. Theres There's nothing much more to say, except that C.N. writes me very cheerful letters and wrote to me today to tell me that Mother's exibition exhibition is very good indeed, and a great success. So as there is very little else, I wiill get back to the One-act thriller I am writing called:– Somebody Else's Shoes. Very Best Love tot yourself and Laura. I hope you are both well and Happy. Love Jenny xxxx.
Technical Note:: 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.

1894. Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool

Title:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_03_enc.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – 5-page letter to RG from Jenny in Liverpool The Playhouse. Liverpool. Dear Robert, Thankyou so very much for the two lovely letters. I am probably not half as busy as you but I still find finding time to write, a great problem. Anyway, here I am at my typwriter (which I have aquired at the cost of £2 to write a play on) and although I am feeling a bit like a very old water-colour I will tell you what goes on. Since my first letter to you everything has got better and better. I have never been so happy in my life. This must be the very best way of living. Lots of work, lots of fun, which costs nothing, every chance of being the very best sort of person, and—this is the happy thought— I get paid for it too. If this isn't luck, I'd like to know what is. In the theatre I am a minor success. My first part, that of a dumb Swede who i was the janator's janitor's wife of a l slum tenement on the east-side of New York, was, to everybody's intense suprise as it is the most insignificent part in Street Scene) a major success! I got all the notices and William (Armstrong) was delighted. Here is a picture of me. I hope you like it. But in the next part they gave me was much too difficult for me and I only just escaped being bad. It was a big part in the Priestley play Time and the Conways (about the Dunn theory of Time) and I had to be 18 in the first and third Acts and 45 in the middle Act. This is a tricky businessbeing 45 years, its easy enough in charades when everybody knows that you are only dressed-up but in a real play you have to be and thats that's whats what's so difficult. Still I did get quite good by the last week (we run plays for three weeks here) and William was again pleased. Since then I have been out of two plays which have only had old women in them and have been for a short holiday and—this is again the happy thought—I got paid for that too. But apart from this I have not been idle. I have written a children's play (this is uncommon difficult) and called it Monday Tuesday and Bert. There was a great deal of talk about them doing it up here but in the end they couldn't afford to spend any money on the Christmas play, because they only run it for matineés, and mine had three sets. Wasn't that a pity, because it would have meant nearly £100 to buy Xmas preants presents with. Still, I find that it can be made much better so I am rewriting the third Act and will try it in London next year, perhaps. Also I am writing a one-Act play as I have been so encouraged by William who thinks that I ought to be able to write a good play one day. I say “why not now??? but he shakes his head; all th same I still say "why not know?["] Apart from the theatre and play-writing I find everything just as hotsy totsy. The place that I live in is a good dream. It is just like home, in fact. It is all painted different colours and the man and his wife who run it (a most intelligent pair) have made it a lovely place to live in. They slosh paint about very happily all day long and in between times cook marvelous food for us. Some of the Playhouse people are here and the rest are Architectural students -all young. They have given me my own bottle of Tomatoe Tomato ketchup and I am blissful. Of social life up here I have partaken a great deal. The people of Liverpool I find more intelligent than the normal run in London. Thank goodness. I get asked to Wine and Food society dinners, rag and bone dances, tea parties and Sunday lunch. I eat a lot more than I should and am not retaining my figure in consequence but it dosn't matter because I have found a very good dancing school up here that will give me lessons free for the advertisment. Isn't that good? At the present moment I am rehearsing very hard indeed for Bonnet Over The Windmill (and a play with more middle-class dialogue it would be hard to imagine). All the nice characters are so tiresome that I am ver glad that I am playig the nasty one and can be rude to them all. Awfull shame they should have misinformed you about my red coat, not cloak, because it is a Flora Offna and suits me down to the knees. Who is your Liverpool Informant? One, Peter Neil and myself hope that it is nothing so dull as mere Durants Press cuttings. Perhaps a little Liverpool bird told you There is one missing from the top of the Town Hall so it might be flapping its green cast- iorn iron wings over Brittany. Incidently you would like one, Peter Neil. My one quarrel with him is that he likes Gone With the Wind, but he counteracts this, they tell me, by reading the Times Leader in the Bath bath . Query from Up-a-Gum-Tree —Liverpool[:] “Does this really excuse him for liking Gone With the Wind?” But apart from this he is far from being in any way C.3. He plays the leading parts up here and can thump his chest among the best Tarzans. Also he is scupulously scrupulously honest. ( unfortunatly unfortunately I havn't haven't exclamatoin exclamation marks on this typwriter typewriter ) Except, it seems about tooth-paste about which he has very socialist ideas about. He is often approached about his share and share alike attitude (which he substantiates by providing one tube of Macleans per Annnum and when it runs out, claims that it is the work of Someone in the Bathroom and uses someone ele 's Pepsodent from then on) But he evades all attempts of people to reason with him and by telling them that he once had a pet Jackdaw that used to peck holes in the tooth-paste so that when you sqeezed it, it shot out of an unexpected hole down the front of your dressing gown. Which dosn't prove anything really. And is a very poor excuse. I have been given, by someone in the Company, the Faber and Faber collection of poems, in which there are some very good ones of yours and Laura's. I spent the short holiday I And first with Diccon and then in London. Diccon's was Lovely but I hated London. In fact I came back here three days early on a very fast train. I am to be painted be Augustus John in the near future. David, I hear, is already playing Rugger for his 1st eleven at Jesus. He was sighted in London when they came up to play some team or other, which they beat. Jolly clever isn't he? Christmas is a-coming and the geese are getting fat. Dammit. It is bitterly cold up here and I am wearing two overcoats which makes me so heavy that I am wearing the soles of my shoes away. But I don't worry much. Theres There's nothing much more to say, except that C.N. writes me very cheerful letters and wrote to me today to tell me that Mother's exibition exhibition is very good indeed, and a great success. So as there is very little else, I wiill get back to the One-act thriller I am writing called:– Somebody Else's Shoes. Very Best Love tot yourself and Laura. I hope you are both well and Happy. Love Jenny xxxx.
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1895. Enclosure – Postcard and photo from Jenny

Title:: Enclosure – Postcard and photo from Jenny
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_01_enc.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – Postcard and photo from Jenny [Photograph of Jenny Nicholson in costume.] Character — 'dumb-swede' One line (spoken in a swedish accent) — “Mrs Forientino me husband say — will you put the garbage on the dumb-waiter!”
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1896. Enclosure – Postcard and photo from Jenny

Title:: Enclosure – Postcard and photo from Jenny
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1393
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: https://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-12_02_enc.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – [Photograph of Jenny Nicholson and actor Manfred Priestly in costume.] With my husband. — who after this play tried to go to sea by joining a grain-ship (bound for Australia) as 'crew.' He was such a good actor it was a pity he left at all but he didn't go because he fell 30 ft. from a mast on to an iron girder and was [sic: brocken] about terribly. He is alright now but will have to lie up for months. His name — Manfred Priestly— Don't he look charming?
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1897. Enclosure – RG note to self “Time Dec 12”

Title:: Enclosure – RG note to self “Time Dec 12”
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-12
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1409
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-27_01_enc.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – RG note to self “ Time Dec 12” Time Dec 12
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1898. Dec 13 Tuesday.

Title:: Dec 13 Tuesday.
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-13
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1395
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-13.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Dec 13 Tuesday. Dictionary (finished letter B in going through Dictionary for words) 4 cords of wood came. Beryl wrote a letter to Mrs Chamberlain, reproving her for publicizing the black cat as if it endorsed Chamberlain's policy. Checked scene 5 of Greeks & Trojans for Laura. Leonie has a witlow on her thumb middle finger & is in great pain with it. Ghost
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1899. Dec 14 1938Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG

Title:: Dec 14 1938Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-14
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1398
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-17_01_enc.html
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG La Chevrie par Boisgervilly I-et-V France Dec 14 1938 Dear Desmond Flower, Laura Riding is not very well at the moment and since she wishes your letter to be answered promptly has asked me to answer it for her; and I have some things to say myself at the end. She says that she is sorry that her letter put you in a mood to write as you did: there was nothing in her letter or in her feelings as she wrote it to earn a sarcastic answer. She regarded it as reasonable that she should pay any extra advertising expenses not covered by the usual allowance for a book of poems, and did not expect you to take it amiss that an author should take such an active interest in the sale of her books [I am myself lazy in this respect, I confess.] As for New Verse she would not have described it as a scurrilous rag to you had she thought that you would not have instantly agreed – in respect of the scurrilities it has contained against Michael Roberts, Edith Sitwell and others besides herself. Why she suggested that Grigson should be sent a copy for a testimonial was that he had been blowing hot & cold about her work and she wished him to commit himself definitely: a vulgar insult from Grigson carries negative weight among the decent-minded. [I may add that she should have been put in the because a few months a year or so before he had successfully grovelled to her when a charge was pending against him for publishing sending her publishing an obscene libel] which would have cost him his job at the Morning Post ] she had let him off] As for 'significant artist.' You quote the Norton Oxford English Dictionary for an abridgement in explanation. The Oxford English Dictionary is not a dictionary so much as a corpus of precedents in the: current, obsolete, cant, cataphretic and nonce-words are all included. It is The expressed view th of the Editors is that 'words cannot be put into strait-waistcoats.' and If you consult a desk much shorter phone table dictionary which makes rather considerably more effort than the abridged Oxford English Dictionary to define distinguish the current meanings of words — Cassells Messrs Cassell's dictionary for example for examp — you will find no encouragement given to 'artist' except as applied to the one who practices a fine-arts or a manual craft, or to who gives theatrical performances. The phrase significant artist' Nothing is said there about poetry. A poet is a poet; an artist is an artist; and though I have a musician is a musician (not either an artist or a poet.) ....You fence; if you are fence a good fencer the well you would surely prefer to regard yourself as a good swordsman rather than as an artist with the foils? You enjoy bull-fights — Bull-fighters have the same (the real ones) — not the Barreras and Carniceritos) prefer to be toreros to rather than artistas . As for 'sigficant' — 'significant' when this adjective means pointing to cannot govern governs a noun means that it is so absolutely unless the thing of of which the noun is a sign is it implies some a reference is either expressed explicit or implicit. e.g. A look look significant of Fascism. certain hate the dislike she felt for him or: A significant look (one implying that the things not said) wrong discretion must be observed) A What a significant artist is supposed to be significant of I bet you couldn't tell me offhand; though there is a historical historical explanation of the phrase. is nobody knows: the phrase attached to the phrase. In its cant use it dates from about 1910-1912 when in (in the English Weekly Review , Chicago Poetry & similar journals) it meant implied that there was an artistic a literary renascence on the way, the spirit of which was to be artistic not rather than literary. This renascence, as you will recall, never really came off. It's a pity that when we met in London you neither you nor your wife gave and so the phrase was left high & dry. ¶ I don't know why you should have this taken this crack against my ' modesty: ' vanity nobody likes to be called names. by the his publishers friends or publishers which is no doubt what you mean by my 'modesty'; it is only that I prefer not to be incorrectly labelled in advertisements. I hope that you have no secret literary affiliations that Most writers write compose their own blurbs & I shall should hate people to think that the phrase was my testimony choice. With best wishes to Mrs Flower & yourself Yours sincerely RG a reference is either explicit or implicit. eg. a look significant of dislike she felt for him a loo significant look (one implying things not said) But 'significant' is applied to actions and words, not to persons. What the cant odd phrase 'significant artist' is supposed to be means or meant I don't think that you could tell me is , could can only be fully explained even by the Oxford English Dictionary by a learned historical note: that in 1910 a literary renascence was thought to be on the way, the spirit of which was to be artistic rather than literary. This renascence never came was never acknowledged as having arrived but frequent the works of several writers were held in the years 1910-15 to be significant of its imminent approach e.g. those of J. Masefield, E.M. Forster, James Douglas Ford Madox Hueffer, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf. The phrase, by the 1920s nineteen twenties, had been left high & dry except in Paris and Australia. (I have looked at just consulted the Big unabridged Oxford English Dictionary including the Supplement and they have omitted the phrase and and the ed which we have here and find that they have it has no report of this usual period usage: we We keep a list of such must add it to the list we are compiling of Oxford English Dictionary omissions as we come across them a good many in the course of the work on the Dictionary of Exact Definitions which L.R. is now editing for Dent & Little Browne , and shall add this for your sake to it, to send to Oxford in due course But I do not know why my questioning of the phrase as applied to myself should have elicited this sarcasm from you about my modesty. Nobody I should have thought that you would have understood my point take expected you as a non-dictatorial publisher, to considered my objection as one of your authors as coming from that of as an author of serious standards authors write their own blurbs and it might seem that the phrase was my own. less flippantly as an author a scrupulous author in a less less flippantly. way – especially since most as one of authors, in a more friendly way; and since our relations hitherto have been of the friendliest and that both Both Laura Riding & I have have had a warm feeling of personal liking for your work & yourself When we met you in London & have been extremely grateful to you for the great trouble you have taken to make the each ofour Collected Poems a really handsome books. If there is Has some concealed subsequent animosity or resentment that >has prompted you to write in this sarcastic strain? way? Please let it be this ventilated appear clearly: to We hope not. make us all feel better and Please do your best to clarify the situation which I, for one, find rather distressing most uncomfortable Yours sincerely.
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1900. Dec 14 1938Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG

Title:: Dec 14 1938Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG
Description:: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Subject:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
Creator:: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:: eng
Date Created:: 1938-12-14
Rights Statement:: In Copyright
License:: Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Extent:: 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
Additional Physical Characteristics:: The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
Physical Repository:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:: Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
Provider:: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:: diaries
Archival Item Identifier:: Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1398
Fonds Title:: Robert Graves collection
Fonds Identifier:: SC050
Is_referenced_by:: Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-12-17_01_enc.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
Date Digitized:: 2002-07-19
Transcript:: Enclosure – Rough draft of letter to Desmond Flower from RG La Chevrie par Boisgervilly I-et-V France Dec 14 1938 Dear Desmond Flower, Laura Riding is not very well at the moment and since she wishes your letter to be answered promptly has asked me to answer it for her; and I have some things to say myself at the end. She says that she is sorry that her letter put you in a mood to write as you did: there was nothing in her letter or in her feelings as she wrote it to earn a sarcastic answer. She regarded it as reasonable that she should pay any extra advertising expenses not covered by the usual allowance for a book of poems, and did not expect you to take it amiss that an author should take such an active interest in the sale of her books [I am myself lazy in this respect, I confess.] As for New Verse she would not have described it as a scurrilous rag to you had she thought that you would not have instantly agreed – in respect of the scurrilities it has contained against Michael Roberts, Edith Sitwell and others besides herself. Why she suggested that Grigson should be sent a copy for a testimonial was that he had been blowing hot & cold about her work and she wished him to commit himself definitely: a vulgar insult from Grigson carries negative weight among the decent-minded. [I may add that she should have been put in the because a few months a year or so before he had successfully grovelled to her when a charge was pending against him for publishing sending her publishing an obscene libel] which would have cost him his job at the Morning Post ] she had let him off] As for 'significant artist.' You quote the Norton Oxford English Dictionary for an abridgement in explanation. The Oxford English Dictionary is not a dictionary so much as a corpus of precedents in the: current, obsolete, cant, cataphretic and nonce-words are all included. It is The expressed view th of the Editors is that 'words cannot be put into strait-waistcoats.' and If you consult a desk much shorter phone table dictionary which makes rather considerably more effort than the abridged Oxford English Dictionary to define distinguish the current meanings of words — Cassells Messrs Cassell's dictionary for example for examp — you will find no encouragement given to 'artist' except as applied to the one who practices a fine-arts or a manual craft, or to who gives theatrical performances. The phrase significant artist' Nothing is said there about poetry. A poet is a poet; an artist is an artist; and though I have a musician is a musician (not either an artist or a poet.) ....You fence; if you are fence a good fencer the well you would surely prefer to regard yourself as a good swordsman rather than as an artist with the foils? You enjoy bull-fights — Bull-fighters have the same (the real ones) — not the Barreras and Carniceritos) prefer to be toreros to rather than artistas . As for 'sigficant' — 'significant' when this adjective means pointing to cannot govern governs a noun means that it is so absolutely unless the thing of of which the noun is a sign is it implies some a reference is either expressed explicit or implicit. e.g. A look look significant of Fascism. certain hate the dislike she felt for him or: A significant look (one implying that the things not said) wrong discretion must be observed) A What a significant artist is supposed to be significant of I bet you couldn't tell me offhand; though there is a historical historical explanation of the phrase. is nobody knows: the phrase attached to the phrase. In its cant use it dates from about 1910-1912 when in (in the English Weekly Review , Chicago Poetry & similar journals) it meant implied that there was an artistic a literary renascence on the way, the spirit of which was to be artistic not rather than literary. This renascence, as you will recall, never really came off. It's a pity that when we met in London you neither you nor your wife gave and so the phrase was left high & dry. ¶ I don't know why you should have this taken this crack against my ' modesty: ' vanity nobody likes to be called names. by the his publishers friends or publishers which is no doubt what you mean by my 'modesty'; it is only that I prefer not to be incorrectly labelled in advertisements. I hope that you have no secret literary affiliations that Most writers write compose their own blurbs & I shall should hate people to think that the phrase was my testimony choice. With best wishes to Mrs Flower & yourself Yours sincerely RG a reference is either explicit or implicit. eg. a look significant of dislike she felt for him a loo significant look (one implying things not said) But 'significant' is applied to actions and words, not to persons. What the cant odd phrase 'significant artist' is supposed to be means or meant I don't think that you could tell me is , could can only be fully explained even by the Oxford English Dictionary by a learned historical note: that in 1910 a literary renascence was thought to be on the way, the spirit of which was to be artistic rather than literary. This renascence never came was never acknowledged as having arrived but frequent the works of several writers were held in the years 1910-15 to be significant of its imminent approach e.g. those of J. Masefield, E.M. Forster, James Douglas Ford Madox Hueffer, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf. The phrase, by the 1920s nineteen twenties, had been left high & dry except in Paris and Australia. (I have looked at just consulted the Big unabridged Oxford English Dictionary including the Supplement and they have omitted the phrase and and the ed which we have here and find that they have it has no report of this usual period usage: we We keep a list of such must add it to the list we are compiling of Oxford English Dictionary omissions as we come across them a good many in the course of the work on the Dictionary of Exact Definitions which L.R. is now editing for Dent & Little Browne , and shall add this for your sake to it, to send to Oxford in due course But I do not know why my questioning of the phrase as applied to myself should have elicited this sarcasm from you about my modesty. Nobody I should have thought that you would have understood my point take expected you as a non-dictatorial publisher, to considered my objection as one of your authors as coming from that of as an author of serious standards authors write their own blurbs and it might seem that the phrase was my own. less flippantly as an author a scrupulous author in a less less flippantly. way – especially since most as one of authors, in a more friendly way; and since our relations hitherto have been of the friendliest and that both Both Laura Riding & I have have had a warm feeling of personal liking for your work & yourself When we met you in London & have been extremely grateful to you for the great trouble you have taken to make the each ofour Collected Poems a really handsome books. If there is Has some concealed subsequent animosity or resentment that >has prompted you to write in this sarcastic strain? way? Please let it be this ventilated appear clearly: to We hope not. make us all feel better and Please do your best to clarify the situation which I, for one, find rather distressing most uncomfortable Yours sincerely.
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