Autograph letter signed : London, to [Gerald] Finzi, 1946 Jan. 28.

Fearing he will "not be of much use to you in your editorial considerations" as he "ought to have let you have the copies of Gurney's poems much earlier;" providing a list of poems "which it seems to me would form a good selection from these two groups of copies. In almost everything (as it strikes me) Gurney brings off some stroke of originality, and in almost everything he is difficult to follow metrically and intellectually. The best things are often to be taken in broad effect, which is lit up with points of colour and vision; to try for complete shapes of thoughts or runs of music in him is to be vexed. But he is a remarkable, sonorous and chivalrous being. - So I have felt in these echoes of his solitude, & tried to judge what the reader who is pleased with 'the best authors' would like and approve, as well as to record my own response;" thanking him for the invitation to Ashmansworth "but at present can't get round, until the appearance of our infant - and some say that even then we shall not be as free as the winds."