Autograph letter signed : Carnforth, to Tom Turner, 1940 "New Year's Day" [January 1].

Concerning his recent trip to Norway ("And think of the irony of it - we sailed North because in May we thought Mussolini looked dangerous; and the Mediterranean warlike!"), health problems, the difficulty in identifying a book which he might like as a gift which he does not already own ("The fundamental trouble, you know, is that I have a flair almost identical with yours; and that the exercise of it was almost that only sport possible to my condition in the years when I was very ill; so that I quartered the ground thoroughly as I could in booksellers' catalogues!"), a recent biography of Edward Thomas ("This new biography is not at all bad; it does give a recognisable portrait of him"), his appreciation for Charles Ricketts's Self portrait, which contained letters by Ricketts addressed to Bottomley, and his unhappiness with an unnamed mutual acquaintance who will be visiting with Turner over the weekend and who reputedly "crabbed" a production of one of Bottomley's plays at the Edinburgh Festival the previous winter.